All these apps could as well be using the clipboard content with good intent (no pun intended). But who knows apart from their respective developers? In 2020 i

All these apps could as well be using the clipboard content with good intent (no pun intended). But who knows apart from their respective developers? In 2020 it's still not a given that we should be allowed to review and read shit that's running on our machines, to at least check this kind of things. It's okay to be surrounded with black boxes everywhere that one cannot study if they wanted to. It's still not considered as a disrespectful and weird practice to not provide the source code with software being distributed. And people are not told they should expect software to come with everything possible to inspect what it does, to the community or themself can review it. If someone is not providing the source code because they fear that something bad will be discovered about it, or that the user will change something to better fit their needs, well something is wrong and is working against the user, especially if the software is gratis anyway. Providing source code could allow users to remove ads? Right, downloading, running and looking at ads is not something many users want to do, even if you consider that ads are legitimate. Give me the code already or I won't run your software because I can trust you on doing the right things and on fully help me out, otherwise you would not have problem providing the code. A case could be made for paid apps: obviously, making the code available could endanger the business model. But at the end of the day, the community and I cannot check that the app isn't doing anything shady if it is sold without its source code. Would I mind if an open source app read my clipboard content? No, because I can check that it's doing something useful for me. These useful features are simply not available to proprietary software without the risk of feeling creepy. Have you noticed how we are mistrustful against our everyday apps and relying operating system developers to cover our asses with complicated permission systems to compensate? This feel this is very wrong, doesn't it? (permission systems would be also useful in a world where every think is open source, though, that would be a defense against attacks. But that would not be a defense against legitimate software!)