iOS 14 shows TikTok steals clipboard content every few seconds 📦

25    25 Jun 2020 10:31 by u/mutageno

8 comments

7 u/DanielGregg 25 Jun 2020 11:21
Is this going to be big news ow will it be quietly swept under the rug?
1 u/None 25 Jun 2020 13:24
hmmm hard question
5 u/None 25 Jun 2020 11:04
Can't apple just fucking sandbox apps properly? It's not the fucking hard
0 u/NitroglycerinLtd 05 Jul 2020 00:59
To be fair, the clipboard is one thing that we practically insist not be sandboxed.
3 u/isPhil 25 Jun 2020 16:39
Interesting. I thought apple had a system in place to stop apps from accessing parts of their system. Maybe they didn't think about the clipboard because its such a standard kind of feature? Unfortunately don't think this will do anything to TikTok though. There has been worse that came out about TikTok and people didn't care unfortunately.
3 u/wocksfoxxy 25 Jun 2020 20:11
Terrible. Someone in the comments is speculating that this is due to TikTok trying to prefetch contacts' profile pictures in case there's an email address in the clipboard that will be used soon. I don't know if that's true or not, but I really hate this pattern (Zoom is one of the worst offenders) of "completely destroy all concept of security and privacy and a functional operating system for the tiniest of microsecond-level conveniences". It's straight-up evil.
1 u/yassine 26 Jun 2020 02:48
Zoom sucks so fucking hard my whole day gets ruined when I have to use it.