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Re:Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla by bink on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:34PM (#28805423)
Just a guess, but it could've been a way for them to determine if you were about to paste content into the address bar. I worked for a company that did something similar. It would compare the clipboard to the contents of the input field. If it was a URL and they matched it would assume you had pasted a URL and would take some extra actions based on that.

It wasn't until the OS started alerting the user to this clipboard read that it started to look very suspicious.

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Re:Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla by DemiGuru on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:51PM (#28805551)
I’ll grant you that it’s a possibility. But it’s unsettling when your clipboard has your recently used password.
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Re:Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla by kymaz on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:18PM (#28806127)
> It wasn't until the OS started alerting the user to this clipboard read that it started to look very suspicious.

Maybe sprinkle in a bit of users didn't consider it suspicious until it was reported that some apps were abusing the privilege.

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