Instagram didn't do it, Twitter didn't do it, Facebook didn't do it. None of the mobile apps in their space did what TikTok was doing. Why was TikTok?

You made arguments, none of them are a good reason for copying clipboard data every second and then suddenly changing that behavior with no functionality loss.

Did they ever give a good reason to be doing it? They haven't. It would seem from a PR perspective if it was for some user functionality benefit you would just say, our bad, we did it so we could parse youtube links automatically for you. They didn't do that.

Uh huh. So they’ve now changed their app so it doesn’t do that anymore. Mind letting me know what functionality they gave up doing that? Because I can’t find anything on something that TikTok can’t do anymore because they stopped reading your clipboard data.

I don’t have to think of a legitimate reason why TikTok would need to read my clipboard data, that’s their responsibility. If they can’t, then it shouldn’t be done.

There’s no argument you can make that justifies reading the data if after they were discovered they both changed their app to no longer do that and they didn’t lose any functionality.

>Maybe, maybe not. Several apps did that.

No, that just means all those apps are sketch af too. You don't accidentally read the clipboard; somebody wrote that code thinking it was ok to read your personal data. You didn't know what was happening until apple gave that notification so why should they have any benefit of the doubt when it comes to what they were using it for.

Re: the TikTok stuff. Wasn’t there something about when iOS 14 or something came out, the one where it gave you a notification about when an app copied the clip board. TikTok was basically copying everything it saw in the clipboard even if you weren’t actively pasting something.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21304228/tiktok-security-ios-clipboard-access-ios14-beta-feature

That’s sketch af.