UPDATE: Seems like Reddit is capturing the clipboard on each keystroke
Seeing the alert come up simply as much. pic.twitter.com/nzbElmRG2a— Don urspace.io (@DonCubed) July 2, 2020
TikTok, which has actually dealt with criticism for privacy issues on its app in the past, was called out for comparable clipboard-copying behavior last week. The business said the practice was part of an “anti-spam” feature and that it was being stopped.
UPDATE: July 4th 11:08 AM ET: Added context about devs raising issues about clipboard copying back in February.
Two iPhone developers, Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, raised issues about clipboard-copying behavior back in February, keeping in mind that lots of apps were engaged in the practice.
The personal privacy function in iOS 14, which is still in a restricted beta for developers, has actually revealed a number of apps engaging in clipboard copying in recent weeks. LinkedIn stated Friday it would stop the practice, explaining its app was doing so to perform an “equality check” between what a user is typing and whats in their clipboard. “We do not store or transfer the clipboard contents,” LinkedIn engineering VP Erran Berger composed on Twitter.
Reddit states its launching a repair for a piece of code that copied contents from users clipboards. Users in a beta variation of iOS 14, which sends an alert when an app attempts to copy clipboard information, reported receiving the notifies with each keystroke in Reddits iOS app.
A public beta of iOS 14 is expected in the next few weeks and its most likely that the clipboard privacy function may expose more apps engaged in this doubtful habits.
The personal privacy function in iOS 14, which is still in a limited beta for designers, has actually exposed a number of apps engaging in clipboard copying in recent weeks. LinkedIn stated Friday it would stop the practice, describing its app was doing so to carry out an “equality check” between what a user is typing and whats in their clipboard.
” We tracked this to a codepath in the post composer that look for URLs in the pasteboard and after that suggests a post title based on the text contents of the URL,” a Reddit representative wrote in an email to The Verge. “We do not store or send out the pasteboard contents. We removed this code and are launching the repair on July 14th.”
