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Reddit says it’s releasing a fix for a piece of code that copied contents from users’ clipboards. Users in a beta version of iOS 14, which sends an alert when an app tries to copy clipboard information, reported receiving the alerts with each keystroke in Reddit’s iOS app.
“We tracked this down to a codepath in the post composer that checks for URLs in the pasteboard and then suggests a post title based on the text contents of the URL,” a Reddit spokesperson wrote in an email to The Verge. “We do not store or send the pasteboard contents. We removed this code and are releasing the fix on July 14th.”
User Donald Morton posted a video of the issue to Twitter:
UPDATE: Seems like Reddit is capturing the clipboard on each keystroke as well...
from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/4/21313214/reddit-code-clipboard-privacy-copy-ios
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