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It is the OS that should transfer the contents of the clipboard to an app, when the user tells it to do so, and not the other way around. The content of my clipboard shouldn't be any app's business until I decide to paste.


To be fair, I don't think the programmers implementing system APIs expected them to be (ab)used like this.

Now system API developers have to view downstream app developers in an adversarial manner...


Ok, but your beef is with Apple, not TikTok.


My beef is with the person who installs a spy camera in my shower, not with the person who didn't expect someone to install a spy camera in my shower. Only one of those people actually installed a spy camera in my shower.




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