Hakawai

#3 for linkedin. if fact they applied a quick fix that you can check yourself here: https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/commit/c3f89585c097863c2... also looking at what they were trying to do in the first place -- check if contents was pasted... and whether the text would be autocorrected?! -- it all looks to me like apple has a bad, or not well understood, clipboard API. apple needs to set guidelines around the clipboard API.

This should be higher, above all of the mobs teething for vengeance. It’s an innocuous comparison of text input to the pasteboard to prevent unwanted autocorrect insertions.[0] Probably the same code used by TikTok too. the code and and comments are here: [0] https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/pull/162/commits/c3f8958...

An explanation from LinkedIn: https://twitter.com/eberger45/status/1278843576638570496 ------ Hi @DonCubed . Appreciate you raising this. We've traced this to a code path that only does an equality check between the clipboard contents and the currently typed content in a text box. We don't store or transmit the clipboard contents. ---------- An example of this is in a library we have open sourced, and you can find the fix here [https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/ (https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/pull/161/files/3881de368...). We will follow up once the fix is live in our app. -----------

This is apparently coming from an open-sourced component called Hakawai. Somebody had to scramble to remove the clipboard code ASAP: https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/commit/fa7e8497040f5c36e... Edit: Don't do mobile, but seems like it was a hack to distinguish between text that was pasted and text added by autocorrect