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I dont run a single native application across five operating systems that requires a popup nag to access the clipboard or that is unable to put any data other than text, html and PNG on the clipboard.

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Every mobile OS from Apple would show a popup if an app tried to access clipboard without your explicit pasting. Obviously, if you tapped “paste” then popup would be unnecessary since you would be approving your own action, not app’s action.

It is somewhat crazy that macOS doesn’t do that yet.

But the comment I replied to was talking in general terms. Yes, for some APIs native apps are for now more trusted than Web apps, depending on the OS, but the trend is that they are becoming less and less trusted.

If you mean mobile OSes sure, I can agree with you they are becoming worse with time. OSes for real computers, not so much.

I mean all consumer operating systems, and they are becoming better unless you stick to old and vulnerable versions.

Again, no non mobile OS prevents native applications from using the clipboard as it should be used. And none of them show any signs of changing that.

Are you saying native apps are less well sandboxed than web apps? Because that is exactly what I said. But they are getting there, and that is good.

Nope, native applications are not ever going to get the ridiculous level of sandboxing demonstrated by the restrictions on accessing the clipboard in the article. Nor are they ever going to be prevented from accessing the file system as web applications are.

They are going to on all good systems for very valid reasons, and they are halfway there.

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