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 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.

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] Have a look on your keyboard - there is the link and can be inserted: [grafik] Alternative: Copy link and make it appear in clipboard. [grafik] Results: [grafik] And now you can insert the link anywhere - also via “long-tap” → context-menu → “insert”.

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 like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software) [image] Discourse (software) Discourse is an open source Internet forum system released on August 26, 2014. It was founded by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron. The client side application is written in EmberJS. The server side is written in Ruby on Rails and backed by a PostgreSQL database and Redis cache. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. Similar discussions can be organized under categories. Admins can create categories, add category descriptions and logos, and control...

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 can vote for it. To do it, login via Google and toggle this button with the star: [vote] [image] Don: 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. This happens only when using the copy button on the address bar: [the copy button] 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: [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.

[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 feature: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-beta-features-leak/#android12leakclipboardprompt iOS: TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data - Ars Technica Edit: @andrei so you were right, it’s not a security feature :clap: The team at chromium pinpointed the error to this feature: [Omnibox] Clipboard can set and detect URL mime type

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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