TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act

Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by ebg13 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:21PM (#23692423)

> Google Maps has a clear use case for accessing the clipboard.

I don't think it does. Neither application should "access" the clipboard.

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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by bravoetch on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:47PM (#23693373)

I keep reading about naughty apps and wondering will the OS ever lock this stuff down.

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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by aetch on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:36PM (#23694486)

Google maps detects copied addresses and lets you route to them in one click.

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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by ebg13 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:44PM (#23694565)

> Google maps detects copied addresses and lets you route to them in one click.

Routing to copied addresses is not a clear use case for letting something spy on everything the user copies, because we already have an invocation for handing clipboard contents to software exactly when the user desires it. It's called the "paste" command.

At some point engineers need to stop doing things just because they can.

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