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		inetknght on July 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard o... > None of this has anything to do with closed source programs reading the clipboard without permission. This has everything to do with closed source programs reading the clipboard without permission since there are no permissions involved in desktop operating systems.

leephillips on July 3, 2020 [–]

Oh, OK. But all of your examples are open source programs. And there is a reason I only run open source programs on the desktop (except maybe for a driver or two, I guess, possibly). I'm not afraid that Vim is scraping my clipboard and selling the contents to an advertising firm. Because it’s not.

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