Samsung Clipboard History
from QuestionMark@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 23 Nov 17:48
https://lemmy.ml/post/39378444
from QuestionMark@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 23 Nov 17:48
https://lemmy.ml/post/39378444
Edit: Samsung Keyboard (in the personal profile) was reinstalled probably after a system update and was the culprit. The issue is now solved. Thank you for your comments.
I have made a work profile using Shelter. I was copy-pasting some stuff in my personal profile while the work profile was disabled. Later, I discovered everything I had copied was showing up in Samsung Keyboard’s clipboard history (in the work profile). Personal profile’s Samsung Keyboard was uninstalled via ADB (among some other packages like Google Play Services). What package could be the culprit? (I’d love to just install LineageOS on it but there isn’t a built for the device yet. I just don’t use it for sensitive stuff.)
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HeliBoard
I’m using FlorisBoard :) Whatever is doing this it’s not Samsung Keyboard, it’s a separate package.
Interesting. I, too, am running a Samsung phone, and an using HeliBoard. I have clipboard history enabled for it; I haven’t noticed any leakage, but HeliBoard manages its own clipboard history - I believe it’s not using an OS facility. If I copy and swap keyboards, I don’t have access to the copied text… but HeliBoard could be clearing it when it’s deactivated, I suppose.
It turned out to be… Samsung Keyboard in the end, probably reinstalled itself after a system update.
I thought it’d be something like com.samsung.clipboardsaveservice, which was the culprit on my old phone, but it didn’t even exist on my new one.
I’m glad you figured it out!
Samsung is so invasive. I can’t wait until I can justify turning this thing into e-waste.
Samsung’s keyboard history is sketchy as. Even when you select everything and ‘delete’ it from the history you can STILL PASTE. Like dude. I know some people find keyboard history useful but I don’t want it, just a huge security risk.
clipboard history is different from the system clipboard. it works the same way on kde plasma, probably windows too. it depends on the keyboard on android to clear it from the system clipboard too, it seems the samsung keyboard devs did to bother with this
Someone reported it, Samsung understood their concerns and thanked them for their feedback. But that’s about it.
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Suggestions/Implement-Auto-Delete-Clipboard-History-to-Prevent-Sensitive/m-p/3200743
Has been an issue for literal years. Samsung knows about it and refuses to do anything. Its one of the biggest reasons I regret giving them another chance after like a decade of not using their devices. Will never give these fucks money again.
I don’t need more reasons to keep Samsung out of my life, I banned them in 2016, but it’s good to know my reasoning still stands.
I can’t look because I don’t have a Samsung phone, but it’s probably a system app. I’d just look through the list and see if one jumps out.
You might get a better answer on an Android community, because this is really an Android question.
Not a full answer but yes it’s a system app. I tried to get rid of it a while back but you needed root to do it. It’s absolutely unconscionable that Samsung hasn’t given people a toggle to disable it.
yeh and if i remember correct, there are no options in Samsunf Keyboard to control the clipboard history length. It still remembers what you copied 3 weeks ago…
My recommendation is to use another keyboard. SimpleKeyboard, FlorisBoard…etc.