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Well, once upon a time you trusted the code running on your device. In Chrome on Android, the flag you want is under Settings | Site Settings | Clipboard | Ask
by rkagerer 6y ago
Well, once upon a time you trusted the code running on your device.
In Chrome on Android, the flag you want is under Settings | Site Settings | Clipboard | Ask before allowing sites to read text and images from the clipboard, and I think it's on by default.
- oblio 6y agoThe question is, does Android itself have that flag?
- tomjakubowski 6y agoDoes that setting affect other Android native apps' clipboard access? It wouldn't seem so.
- dddddaviddddd 6y agoThis would be a great feature for Firefox too! Doesn't look like there's interest though https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013165 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013165
- mititelu 6y agoI assume thats because sites dont have access and need a ctrl+v from user to see content
- _bxg1 6y agoiOS very early-on took on a model of not trusting the software you install on it, and for good reason. Android and the web followed soon afterward. This is the expectation today. Doubly so given Apple's chest-beating about privacy. This clipboard scandal is unacceptable.
- shawnz 6y agoAndroid also had permissions from the beginning.
- _bxg1 6y agoIt only declared and didn't let you individually toggle permissions until version 6.0. You just had to take-or-leave the app as-is. I don't know whether or not it declared them from the very beginning.
- shawnz 6y agoIt did have them from the beginning, and the set of supported permissions was quite substantial compared to what iOS offered. But you're right, iOS was first to have the ability to grant/revoke individual permissions at runtime
- egypturnash 6y agoI remember giant take-it-or-leave-it permission warnings for apps back on 2.1 when I had my Nexus One. Updates that changed permissions would just give you the whole list again with no hint as to what had changed, it was awesome in its user-hostility.
- maram 6y ago> This clipboard scandal is unacceptable. What do you expect when the CEO holds an MBA?
- sleepybrett 6y agoI think i saw that some of the new betas of ios pop an alert whenever software sniffs your pasteboard.. maybe i'm wrong. Seems like I saw somethng during the tiktok stuff earlier this week.
- lalos 6y agoFunny how you are promoting Chrome and Android when I've known for a fact that Google Maps has done this since forever because when you open the app immediately if and only if it's an address it suggests whatever is on your clipboard as a destination. This means 1) there's code running somewhere grabbing the clipboard and deciding if it's an address (might ping home) 2) it has to copy the clipboard all the time to do that.