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More or less a year ago, perhaps many of you remember, the scandal of applications peeking into the clipboard of your iPhone broke out 1. What is the clipboard? They are the notes, a place where what you copy and paste is stored. Thanks to the new iOS operating system, it was discovered that many applications were constantly looking at the clipboard of their iPhone. Let's see right away what this has to do with all of this ClipboardCleaner.
And with Android? In versions prior to Android 10, any application could view and edit the contents of the clipboard. A huge security hole, if you think about it: try to imagine how many things you put in the clipboard and maybe even leave them there for a long time. Passwords and sensitive data such as credit card and PIN for example.
Android Q (Android 10) partially solves this problem by limiting access to the data in the clipboard 2 only to applications that require a particular authorization (input method).
Keep your clipboard clean with ClipboardCleaner
Before Android 10However, any application to which you may have also granted internet connection could potentially look inside your clipboard and make fraudulent use of it. Exactly for this reason Bitwarden, for example, has among its settings an option that perhaps not everyone knows but which is very interesting. Activating it will allow you to automatically delete the contents of the clipboard created by him every few seconds. It starts from 10 seconds and goes up to 5 minutes.
It's a setting we highly recommend to anyone using Bitwarden. It is in fact dangerous to leave sensitive data in your clipboard for the reason we explained to you just now. Unfortunately, as mentioned, Bitwarden it doesn't delete the entire clipboard but only deletes what you copied from it such as passwords created or copied and pasted somewhere.
Clear your notes
ClipboardCleaner obviously it cannot prevent some scam applications from looking into your notes but it will allow you to delete with just one click (even via widgets) any note on your smartphone. Unfortunately it does not allow automatic deletion but the widgets This is very convenient and you can only use it when you know you have copied sensitive sentences or words.
• • •Alternatives to ClipboardCleaner
As always, when possible we also suggest alternatives to alternatives! So if you're not comfortable with ClipboardCleaner you might want to take a look at Clipeus (Play Store And F-Droid).
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