It seems to only happening on mobile. I tried it on Android.
My forum is on e92f57255d but I tried it on Meta too and same issue.
I tested it with Android 10 Chrome 98.0.4758.87
Thanks
Update: It seems to only the external links affected. If I copy a link in meta than I can paste it but if I go to a website and copy that link than I cannot paste it.
Just updated to 98.0.4758.87. Now I have the same problem. I can copy and paste the link posted by @Jagster . But not something I copied from the address bar. It seems to work if I don’t copy from the address bar
This happens only when using the copy button on the address bar:
Everything works just fine when coping a link from the web page (even an external link) or when coping a link from the address bar “manually”:
tap on the edit button:
select URL in address bar
copy it using the context menu
I, personally, doubt that this is a security feature. That would be pretty confusing UX in my opinion. And I tried to find some announce of it, and found nothing. My guess is that this is a bug in Chrome, and the fact that the link appears in the clipboard after tapping the button with an eye is a side effect of pressing that button.