[specialist]

> It's certainly a good lesson in not copy/pasting random snippets from the internet...

For someone with more gumption than me:

Future copy & paste will default have intermediate screenshot and OCR steps. Voila: charset scrubbing for free.

Why not? Already today misc UIs and renderings disallow text selection. Drives me nuts.

[modeless]

The future is now. Android has been doing this for years and it's awesome. There's no text you can't copy.

To clarify, by default copy and paste works the normal way, but you can open the app switcher to use the OCR copy/paste which works on non-selectable text too, even in images.

[QuercusMax]

There's a way to prevent this - to my great annoyance, health apps (such as the ubiquitous MyHealth variants) and banking apps can prevent you from taking screenshots or copying text. This is presumably to prevent screen-scraping apps from stealing your private data, but it's really annoying when you're trying to screenshot a QR code for some kind of check-in process.

[checkyoursudo]

That's why you need a second phone to photograph the screen of the first phone.

[josephcsible]

If you root your phone, you can use an Xposed module like DisableFlagSecure to get around apps that do that.

[kevin_thibedeau]

This is too complicated for a personal supercomputer to be burdened with. Better to ship everything on the clipboard to a sanitizer service.