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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by noisem4ker on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:50PM (#23692016)
It is the OS that should transfer the contents of the clipboard to an app, when the user tells it to do so, and not the other way around. The content of my clipboard shouldn't be any app's business until I decide to paste.
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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by andrewzah on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:48PM (#23692743)
To be fair, I don't think the programmers implementing system APIs expected them to be (ab)used like this.

Now system API developers have to view downstream app developers in an adversarial manner...

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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by jeffbee on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#23692030)
Ok, but your beef is with Apple, not TikTok.
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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by ebg13 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:16PM (#23692363)
My beef is with the person who installs a spy camera in my shower, not with the person who didn't expect someone to install a spy camera in my shower. Only one of those people actually installed a spy camera in my shower.
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