Then around Android 10 they tightened security and decided background apps can no longer receive clipboard event. Which makes sense from a security standpoint, but it totally broke my dictionary app. I just wish they're a way as a developer to get around it with my own app.
If we never had the clipboard (on any computer, not just Android) and it was suddenly invented today, it would never pass any major company's privacy or security review. Here we have something that allows the user to share any data instantly with any process that happens to be listening, including sensitive things like credentials, personal information, the works. It's a security nightmare! In today's paranoid times, no OS would say yes to a new feature like this, but we keep it because it's legacy and it can't be gotten rid of at this point.
The current status quo for software architecture is giving a swarm of LLM agents root and full access to user data and letting them run amok, unsupervised, connected to a proprietary remote black box service either being monitored by Palantir or the CCP. What is this "paranoia" you speak of?
The bpost app (Belgian national post) immediately reads the clipboard when it gets opened and I hate this behaviour with a passion. While on the other hand it throws a fit if it ever detects an unlocked bootloader, root access, "suspicious" apps or whatever.
I ended up confining it to an outdated phone with a stock OS along with the bank and identity apps that I cannot avoid. I digress, but the original cause of my irritation was indeed lack of control on my clipboard that ia had noticed thanks to that small notification.