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> something I put there from my website

No, I understood that this was your intention. I'm trying to explain that even if you have the best of intentions, there is a risk you introduce a bug where your website _doesn't_ put something on the clipboard, so then when your app tries to read it, it instead reads whatever unrelated data is on the top of the user's clipboard. And if your app tries to append this value to a URL, then you are effectively sending clipboard data to your server, i.e. risking worst case scenarios like user passwords showing up in your server logs.




You have no idea how my app works and are just assuming. You have no idea what you're taking about.




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