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Re: Even more iOS apps caught snooping clipboard contents ...

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> So I'm not at all really sure why only iOS makes the news for this kind of
> clearly creepy app behavior... and not, oh, say, Android, or, Windows.

Hi Ant,

It's not just the Windows & Android folks who think it's normal behavior.
o Even the Linux folks seem to think this is perfectly normal behavior.

Windows: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/wDbAqMr-0oY>
Android: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mobile.android/hdNb3BeYm44>
Linux: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.os.linux/VmByXYAaJts>

So what is confusing to me is why, on iOS, this reading of the clipboard
(by apps that have absolutely no business whatsoever reading the clipboard)
is _always_ considered aberrant behavior by all accounts we can find
(including the companies caught doing it!)... 

But on Windows, Linux, and on Android, they think it's perfectly normal.
o Makes no sense.

I agree with nospam, for example, that when the companies who are caught
doing it "claim" it's a bug, they're just making excuses 'cuz you have to
explicitly code this stuff... it doesn't happen by accident.

But at least on iOS, when those companies are caught, they _all_ (so far)
agreed that it's the wrong thing to do, and they all said they'd remove it
(e.g., Reddit, Linked-In, & TikTok, although TikTok was caught long ago so
they are especially egregious offenders). 
o Linked-In: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/2VZ5a3QsvBc>
o Reddit: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/-gvgKjTALvI>
o TikTok: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/dRKgQG8jGo8>
o Others: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/IHVirXnbJF0>

Why is it always a bug (by all accounts) when it happens on iOS, but not on
the other four common consumer OS platforms?
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Re: Even more iOS apps caught snooping clipboard contents ... Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-07-05 21:08 +0000
  Re: Even more iOS apps caught snooping clipboard contents ... Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-07-05 23:29 +0000
    Re: Even more iOS apps caught snooping clipboard contents ... Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-07-05 23:48 +0000

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