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  • Reddit could introduce a TikTok-like video feature

    Reddit could introduce a TikTok-like video feature

    Reddit is allegedly thinking of introducing a TikTok-like video feature. As TechCrunch first reported, Reddit is “exploring the idea” of introducing TikTok-like video editing tools with the option for Redditors to react to videos uploaded on the platform. The feature will be similar to TikTok’s Duet and Stitch features.

    If you are not much of a TikTok user and don’t know what the Duet and Stitch features are, Duet allows you to play your video alongside someone else’s, while Stitch allows you to incorporate up to 5 seconds of another person’s video into your own.

    But the goal of this possible TikTok-like video feature won’t be for Reddit to become a TikTok competitor. According to the report, Reddit is considering implementing such a feature only to provide a better way for Redditors to further participate in discussions that they are passionate about.

    It must be noted that, at the moment, Reddit is only thinking about implementing this TikTok-like video feature, but the company hasn’t yet begun working on it. Before deciding if the feature is worth it or not, Reddit will ask users in various subreddits, which are different online communities on the platform, to determine if such a tool would be interesting and beneficial to them.

    According to the report, Reddit will specifically ask subreddits where it thinks that the video feature would be most beneficial to them. However, it should be noted that community testing has not yet started.

    A Reddit spokesperson told TechCrunch, “In line with our work to help people engage in the topics that matter to them through social audio, video, text, memes, and more, we’re in the process of reaching out to a few Reddit communities to see if a new video feature we’re working on is something they find useful and fun.”

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  • Reddit is introducing a better way to find new communities and content

    Reddit is introducing a better way to find new communities and content

    If you use Reddit on your Android phone or your iPhone, you will probably notice a new Discover tab within the Reddit app, which strongly resembles an Instagram feed. Yes, it took two years, but finally, Reddit introduced a new significant change to its app. The idea of the new Discover tab is for Reddit users to find new communities and content more easily.

    According to Reddit, if you are logged into your Reddit account, the content in the new Discover tab will be strongly personalized for you. Based on the subreddits and the content you watch on Reddit, the app will recommend content that you may like. Users who are not logged in to the app will see content that is currently trending on the platform.

    As for why Reddit is introducing the Discover tab, Jason Costa, Reddit’s director of product for content and communities, told Engadget, “Discover is more meant to solve the breadth problem and really help people traverse the wide corpus of Reddit.” He also mentioned that during the early testing of the Discover tab, thanks to the new feature, one in five Reddit users joined at least one subreddit.

    Currently, the new Discover tab is available only on the mobile versions of Reddit. But, if the Reddit users like the new feature, Jason Costa said, “I could absolutely see it impacting other surface areas and maybe impacting the design language of Reddit.” This might imply that if Redditors like the new Discover tab, it may ultimately make its way to the platform’s web version.

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  • LinkedIn, Reddit, Google News and other apps caught spying on iPhone users’ clipboards

    LinkedIn, Reddit, Google News and other apps caught spying on iPhone users’ clipboards

    Last month, we told you that a new feature found in the iOS 14 beta detects when a third party app is spying on your iPhone’s clipboard. The latter is the place where data is temporarily stored while being copied from one app to another. Those running the iOS 14 beta preview noticed that they were receiving notifications that apps like TikTok and even AccuWeather were sniffing around an iPhone user’s clipboard and could copy things like PIN numbers, social security numbers and more. Some users received this notification every time they typed a punctuation mark or tapped the space bar on their iPhone’s QWERTY keyboard.

    Last week, Don Morton, a developer using the iOS 14 beta, was seeing a notification that Microsoft’s networking app LinkedIn was copying the content of his clipboard after every keystroke. When ZDNet got in touch with LinkedIn, a spokesperson said that this was all part of a bug. LinkedIn engineering VP Erran Berger said, “We don’t store or transmit the clipboard contents.” TikTok claimed that it appeared as though it was spying on iPhone clipboard data because of an anti-spam “fraud detection mechanism.” The popular short-form video app said that it never copied any content from anyone’s iPhone but it removed the mechanism anyway.

    Morton made a list of apps that iOS 14 is catching red-handed stealing clipboard data. The list includes apps that copied clipboard data after each keystroke and others that copied the data once the app was opened. The former list includes three names: TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit. We’ve already mentioned the responses from TikTok and LinkedIn. Reddit said that it is going to disseminate a software update to eliminate code that caused it to copy content from an iPhone user’s clipboard. The software update is expected to be pushed out on July 14th.

    Some password manager apps will automatically clear your clipboard after a certain period of time has passed. The 1Password app has a feature that when toggled on, will automatically clear any field copied from the app to the clipboard in 90 seconds. Some say that they will ask Apple to make access to the clipboard permission that users must agree to give to an app.

    In Morton’s blog post he wrote that this is a real problem. He said, “This is a problem. However, the real problem and thing that scares me is the fact that ANY app has the ability to access the clipboard without permission. I could easily see “phishing apps” starting to pop up (if they are not already) with the sole intention to scrape as much clipboard data as possible. To me, this is just as bad or even more worrying than the companies that have already been called out for it. For the most part, the companies that have been getting called out have a motive to be “good.” I’m just starting to think about companies or apps that have no intention of being good.”

    Once the notifications start appearing for everyone when the final version of iOS 14 drops, we will certainly have a better idea about how widespread this problem is.