Maps actually make a perfect example of why this needs to exist, even without malicious actors. Your zipcode example starts off as a perfectly well-meaning exa

Maps actually make a perfect example of why this needs to exist, even without malicious actors. Your zipcode example starts off as a perfectly well-meaning example of clipboard-sniffing, but after a very short meeting with "reality", quickly turns into passing strings to a geo API because there's a lot more addresses than just zipcodes we'd like to detect. And it just so happens that the most significant provider of such an API, is also one of the most significant providers of adtech going .. You can see how quickly it goes from "providing seamless UX" to "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".