> Except on the most popular application platform available of today: the web. The web is not an operating system, for goodness' sake. A browser is itself an a

> Except on the most popular application platform available of today: the web. The web is not an operating system, for goodness' sake. A browser is itself an application no different from a terminal emulator + shell (which also is capable of running arbitrary other applications within its context). > I'm honestly amazed and horrified to learn that smartphone apps on the 2 OSes have this capability. Prepare to be even more "amazed" and "horrified": I am willing to bet that whatever desktop OS/distro you use does the same damn thing (providing apps with programmatic access to the clipboard or clipboards). If you don't want other applications to access some data, for heaven's sake don't put it in what is literally a shared buffer between applications.