Hello, Repro: Try to paste a link in composer. 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 :slightly_smiling_face: Update: It seems to only the extern…

This looks like a new privacy feature of Chrome on Android to not insert copied links into clipboard. Open website Tap on address bar Copy link via tap on icon [grafik] Go somewhere like Discourse composer and try to insert via “long-tap” → context-menu → "insert This fails. [grafik…

discourse - Wiktionary, the free dictionary But OneBox is missing Works with iPhone/Hub And when using common linking in text (iPhone/Safari)

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

Wiktionary.org links like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discourse don’t work… discourse - Wiktionary, the free dictionary … because of: [grafik] You can only see this note in preview on desktop - I think on mobile there is no preview? Does it also fail on mobile for a link from Wikipedia.org …

Hmm. Maybe this is the bug we discussed on dev @zogstrip @andrei with Android and pasting URLs? So weird!

[image] codinghorror: Hmm. Maybe this is the bug we discussed on dev @zogstrip @andrei with Android and pasting URLs? So weird! Yes, this is the same bug. There is a bug report about it on the official bug-tracker - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1295617 . Note that you…

[image] andrei: 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. I’m pretty sure it’s all about preventing clipboard snooping. Quite similar to the Android clipboard prompt featu…

Cannot paste link in composer with Android Chrome

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andrei (Andrei Prigorshnev) February 16, 2022, 8:26pm 10

The Chromium team merged the fix for this bug. Note that the fix isn’t published yet.

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Cannot paste link in composer with Android Chrome

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