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If this is spyware and the actual contents are being sent somewhere, you’ll hear about it.

This seems pretty overblown. Here is a simple explanation: the apps exhibit different behavior when a relevant URL is on the clipboard. Reddit does this.

That being said, I’m glad apple is giving the clipboard some privacy attention. Tons of people send their passwords thru the clipboard.

They just pushed clipboard usage detection as a feature in the new iOS... I think this addresses pasteboard concerns in a decent way, no?

It has been years so youre probably right. Bummer. That explains the ram usage.

I do prefer the webview approach because I don’t need/want my chat app to bundle a browser :-/ Ive been a web and native app dev for a decade and do not agree that developer convenience could ever justify these sorts of choices. My webview backed native apps are all sub 1mb and I have no trouble developing them. I guess I just dont get it.

Its interesting that slack takes 1gb+ memory. Slack still uses the OS provided webview, right? That seems like the right way to do it (last time I used Slack, it was a 3mb download - glorious), but how is it using so much RAM? maybe its leaky?