The Chinese company that owns and controls TikTok does probably not like all this sunshine being directed their way. Nearly all of Zoom's developers are in China as well.
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TikTok App to Stop Accessing User Clipboards After Being Caught in the Act by iOS 14
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The Chinese company that owns and controls TikTok does probably not like all this sunshine being directed their way. Nearly all of Zoom's developers are in China as well.
This would only work (on a technical level) if Apple restricts how users can paste within an app. If, for instance, Apple allows pasting only via the system-provided context menu (like double tapping on a text field on iOS or right-clicking on macOS), the developers could not provide pasting functionality in any other way, such as with dedicated UI buttons in a text editor or a gesture.
BootLoxes
macrumors 6502a
Has it not been known for a while that TikTok is just spyware?
Most alarmingly it targets younger people.
Most alarmingly it targets younger people.
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uniquexoxo
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Chinese companies gonna spy and lie. Why does this not surprise us? Who knows, good tidbits in those clipboard reveals perhaps get sent off to the Chinese Communist Party for further review.
madrigal77
macrumors 6502a
Chinese government spy app. What else do you expect?
luvbug
macrumors 6502a
I'm not disagreeing, but there are a lot of non-Chinese companies on the list in the article, as well. This bad behavior is not owned solely by CN.
gaximus
macrumors 68020
This is what I was going to say, what Feature, how was this helpful to the user?
Osxguy
macrumors 6502
Theres a dating app Grindr that does the same thing. I stopped using it, the only way I knew it was pasting my data was it would say pasting data from clipboard for 27" iMac Pro... or pasting from iPad Pro 11"... I guess I outed myself.. with this one.. but this security feature will expose that app for the evil that it is and people will stop using those apps.. doubt it as people still sell their soul for free email COUGH COUGH GMAIL...
Pakaku
macrumors 68040
Which will all be exposed by iOS 14 if they're snooping on your clipboard, and none of which make Tiktok and other Chinese apps any less scummy trash for having been doing so
cmaier
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So many scummy apps. Apple’s not anywhere close to perfect, but I trust them a lot more than any conceivable alternatives.
nachodorito
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So basically Grindr is gonna know how 99% accounts where I live are just for buying and selling drugs.
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God, now that I think of it, Android apps shouldn't need a permission to phonecalls when they don't interact with telephony services and stuff.
If I ever make a mobile OS (lmao) it would be mandatory for devs that when asking for a service, the app had to have some activity relating to it.
Also, what is TikTok gonna do? Send my ****** copy pastas to the CCP?
nachodorito
macrumors member
It's kind of entertaining when the for you page adapts to your niches and likings.
less apps I have, safer I feel nowadays.
I think that Android has this permission to read your phone number, not so much to make calls.
But anyway, Apple can (and should) even take this one step further by denying individual apps access to the internet. Some Android distributions already allow this (such as OnePlus's Oxygen OS). As for privacy, if you have a rooted Android phone, you can take things even one step further by using permission managers such as App Ops. This allow very fine and granular control which which apps can access which permissions (e.g. read phone status, contacts, GPS, WiFi scanning, clipboard access, etc).
As for Apple's clipboard notification mechanism, is this just a notification, or does it allow granular control if access to the clipboard? If the former, I really think that this is just a half-implementation as really, the damage has already been done, so to say.
and yet they allow a “sandboxed” app to completely monitor activity in some other app. They also default to allowing all apps run in the background. And even if you turn off “Run in background” completely, apps continue to run in the background until some other app needs that memory. This alert appears even if you’ve disallowed TikTok from running in the background!
That’s some good privacy.
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Precisely. I try to use a web browser whenever possible, instead of installing an app for a specific website or service. Many of the apps out here just mimic what a web browser does, anyway, and the only reason for this, in my opinion, is to track you by skirting around privacy settings on a web browser.
DeputyFife
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iBreatheApple
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I can’t believe they’re using the information I was about to submit as a comment to the World Wide Web!!! My privacy!!
That said, Go Apple. Love how dedicated they seem regarding privacy. We have almost none nowadays.
That said, Go Apple. Love how dedicated they seem regarding privacy. We have almost none nowadays.
dontwalkhand
macrumors 604
Just stop using this garbage. Delete TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, et al. Just text/iMessage/FaceTime each other! I have done this and never looked back. Also enjoying better battery life too. Win. Win. Win.
I still utilize YouTube for entertainment. With an old style Non-Google account, aka, no gmail attached.
I still utilize YouTube for entertainment. With an old style Non-Google account, aka, no gmail attached.
ghostface147
macrumors 601
How many apps will be busted with the orange dot? That’s what I’m curious about.