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by emodendroket 1789 days ago
Fair point, but I don't think you can _read_ the contents of the system clipboard, can you? I thought you could set it but had to wait for a paste event to read it.
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itsananderson 1789 days ago
It requires a permission request, but yes there's a browser API to read the clipboard contents https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/r...
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partido3619463 1789 days ago
On iOS and Mac the clipboard is readable to all apps without interaction. (Eg slack allows login on Mac desktop by copy/pasting text from the browser. Chrome on iOS will auto paste from clipboard to show a target url)
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