Post #2822736
2025-03-13 14:44 UTC
@torgo@mastodon.social Wait a sec. Why can a browser or any app *request* the clipboard content? This seems to me like a massive security flaw of the OS. The browser should not be in control of this at all.
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@jgg@qoto.org 2025-03-13 18:49
@skaphle@social.tchncs.de @torgo@mastodon.social An app that can't request clipboard content is an app with no clipboard support by definition. Nearly all desktop apps do it. On web pages it is not nearly as important, because the browser provides input fields and their context menus, so web pages don't need it as much. But web apps with desktop-like interfaces need it to be that way. Yes, that means that any text, photo or whatever you ever copied in a desktop app has been available to the rest of running desktop apps, since circa 1990.