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It’s also a privacy issue. Google’s Firebase Dynamic links is using it non-maliciously to survive app installs for deep linking(when the app is not installed it helps you redirect the user to the correct screen after the install), however any webpage can actually put something on your clipboard and match you on an app by reading your clipboard.

With iOS14 at least we can tell when apps are reading the clipboard.



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