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At least on MacOS "sensitive" contents copied to clipboard by apps can be marked as such, and won't be persisted by my clipboard manager.

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I see this happening also with the default clipboard manager in windows and 1password - copied passwords do not show up in the clipboard menu (downside they are not pastable in VMs either)

I wonder what API they use, in the .NET API I don't see any option to set content as sensitive: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.c...

edit: ah, nevermind, it's just not exposed to .NET, search for "CanIncludeInClipboardHistory" here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/clip...

edit2: also some ideas to use the API from autohotkey for concerned people like me: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=97251

> default clipboard manager in windows and 1password - copied passwords do not show up in the clipboard menu

Mmm, Windows Clipboard does saves the password that I copied from Keepass, they will be in the menu. However Keepass have a option to clear the last entry in the clipboard which is set for 10 second to let the password persist in the clipboard and then Keepass will overwrite/remove the last entry after the time is up. Very useful imo.

Which clipboard manager do you use?

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