> I don't have any reason to not believe their explanation.
Why not? They've been engaging in very, very dark gray area things before.
> And I don't think my clipboard is useful to them for anything else.
Don't you ever copy paste anything mildly interesting, like email-addresses, phone numbers to add to your address book, form contents before submitting a form in case the site is terrible and resets the form on error etc? I'm sure they'd love to get their hand on that information, as it'll allow for data mining to better "understand you".
Why not? They've been engaging in very, very dark gray area things before.
> And I don't think my clipboard is useful to them for anything else.
Don't you ever copy paste anything mildly interesting, like email-addresses, phone numbers to add to your address book, form contents before submitting a form in case the site is terrible and resets the form on error etc? I'm sure they'd love to get their hand on that information, as it'll allow for data mining to better "understand you".