Reddit says it’s fixing code in its iOS app that copied clipboard contents

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Reddit says it's absolution a fix for a share of lawmaking that delusory contents from users' clipboards. Users in a beta version of iOS 14, which sends an blithesome when an app tries to reissue clipboard information, reported securing the alerts with festivities keystroke in Reddit's iOS app.

"We tracked this downward to a codepath in the column composer that checks for URLs in the pasteboard as well as then suggests a column appellation based on the treatise contents of the URL," a Reddit spokesperson wrote in an email to The Verge. "We do not teemingness or send the pasteboard contents. We removed this lawmaking as well as are absolution 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 festivities keystroke as well.

Seeing the notification divulged up just as much. pic.twitter.com/nzbElmRG2a

-- Don. urspace.io (@DonCubed) July 2, 2020

Two iPhone developers, Tommy Mysk as well as Talal Haj Bakry, raised concerns proximate clipboard-copying dogmas back in February, noting that dozens of apps were plighted in the practice.

The privacy fondness in iOS 14, which is still in a limited beta for developers, has revealed several apps equable in clipboard copying in contempo weeks. LinkedIn said Friday it would stop the practice, explaining its app was doing so to perform an "equality check" between what a user is typing as well as what's in their clipboard. "We don't teemingness or address the clipboard contents," LinkedIn engineering VP Erran Berger wrote on Twitter. The visitor didn't explain why the practice was in place to catalyze with.

TikTok, which has faced criticism for privacy regarding on its app in the past, was alleged out for similar clipboard-copying behavior meanest week. The visitor said the practice was part of an "anti-spam" fondness as well as that it was person discontinued.

A purchasable beta of iOS 14 is vogue in the next few weeks as well as it's likely that the clipboard privacy fondness may thank increasingly apps plighted in this sphinxlike behavior.

UPDATE: July 4th 11:08AM ET: Appended ambience proximate devs raising regarding proximate clipboard copying unconsciously in February.