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> Not sure if TikTok does something similar, but there are certainly innocent reasons for checking the clipboard.

If I find someone digging through my mailbox, I don't start rationalizing their reasons for it - I ask them to explain themselves, and that explanation had better fucking be a good one.

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For sure. I am not in a position to determine whether TikTok is looking at clipboard contents for good or evil. I simply wanted to point out that there exist innocent reasons for looking at the clipboard.

The argument is that there is no innocent reason to be looking at the clipboard. Either the user is going to paste the thing in your app ormit’s not yours to fiddle with in the first place.

I copy passwords from a password vault. I don’t want your app knowing that I just opened Hacker News five seconds ago and have this password-looking text in the clipboard.

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