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Whats the point of having an App Store as the gatekeeper for installing apps if you aren’t going to catch this shit?
by statictype 6y ago
Whats the point of having an App Store as the gatekeeper for installing apps if you aren’t going to catch this shit?
- CardenB 6y agoI believe iOS14 has features to detect this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hejb9i/ios14_catches_apps_spying_on_your_clipboard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hejb9i/ios14_catches...
- statictype 6y agoYes - I mean why hasn't the App Store review process already caught this in previous versions of iOS? Why do we need to wait for the technical capability to be surfaced to users? How are we supposed to know if the app's continuous request for clipboard access is ok or not? I feel like that was literally the only value-add in the App Store review process and the fact that its a feature in iOS seems to indicate that Apple is throwing in the towel here and saying "we don't know if this is a privacy issue or not so we will just notify you about it".