LinkedIn has been caught, repeatedly, doing jenky stuff. Even if you need to maintain some sort of presence on their website, you should never ever trust them.
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LinkedIn Sued for Reading Universal Clipboard Data
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LinkedIn has been caught, repeatedly, doing jenky stuff. Even if you need to maintain some sort of presence on their website, you should never ever trust them.
The problem is the browsers does NOT block this behaviour nor ever warn you of it.
Therein lies the argument battle of browser vs app.
Reddit had code that did this. Fairly interesting reason why.
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Reddit promises to stop accessing user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14 - 9to5Mac
iOS 14 is only in developer beta, but it’s already exposing just how often some applications are checking users’ clipboards....
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Well, for camera/mic/photos/location permission needs to be given first by the user. In iOS 14 there are additional notifications when those are accessed/used, after permission has been given before.
Is Dunkin saying they will track your location, or what you do on your phone? Serious question.
With regards to rewards, I will choose to delete the apps unless I’m given the choice of letting companies locate me, or copy from my clipboard.
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Are you saying that if I open a browser, and navigate to a url, the site can read my clipboard?
If yes, do you know if this is all browsers (including Safari on iOS)?
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Not Notes, but a buffer that holds the content that you copied from apps (text, images, etc.). If you copied confidential stuff e.g. financials and unprotected passwords, apps that can access your clipboard can potentially snoop your secrets and store them elsewhere.
GOOD.
i hope they win and set a precedent.
I use a password maanger, specifically KeePass, and I was completely baffled to see my clipboard was being spied upon. I have my passwords in there! What the heck is the point of a password manager if this is taking place?
I swear to God, Apple just did the world a massive favour in exposing this BS. I’ve just about had enough of every app being spyware. Enough is enough!
i hope they win and set a precedent.
I use a password maanger, specifically KeePass, and I was completely baffled to see my clipboard was being spied upon. I have my passwords in there! What the heck is the point of a password manager if this is taking place?
I swear to God, Apple just did the world a massive favour in exposing this BS. I’ve just about had enough of every app being spyware. Enough is enough!
So you think someone will sue Apple for implementing copy and paste, which is over 40 years old.
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Just note that this is an intentional feature-you can write text on your Mac with Pages or Word, copy it, pick up your iPad and paste it into LinkedIn. Since both devices are _your_ devices this is the same as if it happened on a single device. People would complain like mad if you couldn’t do it.
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But have they been caught _stealing_? The whole purpose of the clipboard (copy/paste) is that you copy stuff in one place and paste it in another place. These lawyers will have to show evidence that LinkedIn itself is sending that information elsewhere.
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On one hand, the trusting type of person I am would say maybe it’s a bug in the iOS beta that’s triggering the notification about an app pasting from the clipboard when it may not actually be doing so.
On the other hand...I got a notification about it when I opened the Weather Channel app...and that was weird as crap.
My Siri Shortcut for clearing the Universal Clipboard is proving to be pretty useful! 😂
On the other hand...I got a notification about it when I opened the Weather Channel app...and that was weird as crap.
My Siri Shortcut for clearing the Universal Clipboard is proving to be pretty useful! 😂
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I believe it is referring to Apple's universal clipboard feature where if you and your parter say, both own an iPhone for example you can both use the same clipboard. Linkdn is accused of reading that universal clipboard and thus getting data from iPhones etc that the suer may own or a member of their family etc owns even though the app is not installed on that other device.
There is not much a difference in how I interact with a website whether I trust them or not.
edit: but I tend not to load 3rd party apps unless absolutely needed.
Wonder what they use the data for.. Linkedin used to be a useful site for me, but because some of the users, its become another facebook with people posting political messages and even one had photos of their food. I go there not to read your side of a social debate, I go there for latest industry news and job related articles. Had to unfollow Guy Kawasaki months ago..
1. That’s absolutely common. An app doesn’t know whether the clipboard contents can be pasted without looking at the contents. So the app developer looks at the clipboard contents to decide whether a “Paste” button should be shown instead of always showing it, and if the user tries to use “Paste” giving an error message. There is so much nonsense posted here by people who don’t have a clue of app development.
2. No.
Apple really needs to address these clipboard issues. We are seeing a lot of variations of clipboard abuse by 3rd party
apps lately.
apps lately.
But if as gnasher said, it sometimes is legitimate and necessary, maybe it is just how things need to work?
Thank you Apple for exposing this.
I spent some time checking the apps that I had installed on my iPhone and on both of my Macs. After reading the privacy policies, I removed several of those apps. I’m not a lawyer and I’m not going to pretend to know all of the legal speak and potential double-talk in many of the privacy policies. It’s just not worth it. If I cannot clearly understand the privacy policy, I’m not going download or buy the app.
I spent some time checking the apps that I had installed on my iPhone and on both of my Macs. After reading the privacy policies, I removed several of those apps. I’m not a lawyer and I’m not going to pretend to know all of the legal speak and potential double-talk in many of the privacy policies. It’s just not worth it. If I cannot clearly understand the privacy policy, I’m not going download or buy the app.
Some good news: Accuweather just had a major update with a redesign, and it no longer copies from the clipboard. At least on my end.
And it’s a pretty good update I must add.
And it’s a pretty good update I must add.