> It can be an elegant design choice, but also a design choice that appears to be or is an abuse of privacy. For decades, all programs running on your computer

> It can be an elegant design choice, but also a design choice that appears to be or is an abuse of privacy. For decades, all programs running on your computer had access to the clipboard. A primary intended purpose of the clipboard is precisely to share information between different programs. Maybe it is in fact a security issue that should be rethought, but calling it an abuse of privacy seems extreme.