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this is the response I received when I asked the developers of War Tortoise why the game was accessing my paste

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hmmm I wonder why they won’t at the very least edit the code provided by the SDK to not do that

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They could stop using the Dynamic Links feature. firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-l github.com/firebase/fireb

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The solution would be for the app developers to stop using a feature inherently requiring that URLs are automatically read from the clipboard. Apple added an API to detect if the clipboard contains URL-like data but that's hardly a solution. It just reduces how often it happens.

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Ideally, Android and iOS would have designed clipboard support so that pasting is a user action via the system UI instead of a programmatic call to an API by the app triggered by a user action. Context menu would ideally be system UI with app extensions.

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add support for only allowing explicit pasting of the clipboard · Issue #347 · GrapheneOS/os-issu...

We can add a toggle for disabling API-based clipboard access by the focused app. Instead, we can add a paste button to the keyboard app. Ideally, the context menus in apps would be a system UI with...

9:18 AM · Nov 23, 2020Twitter Web App

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If there's genuinely a use case for programmatic access to the clipboard outside of a keyboard (clipboard manager), it could be handled via a permission that's rarely needed. This is how it works for web sites. There's hardly ever an actual reason to do more than the system UI.