We're not going to agree on that. The response is clearly there to point to a fig leaf instead of saying 'oh, oops, we will make this more obvious in the UI', the software is working as intended: as a way to gain access to more data.

Note that clipboard data can be just about anything and is a valuable dataset, more so if the source of the data isn't aware of being a source, besides, there is no history so you won't even know what you've lost.

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rapiz 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And yes, that IS the expected behavior.

Select to translate is almost a standard feature for translation software. Not sure if the situation gets better now, but back then the software was written, using clipboard as temporary storage is a very robust and maybe the only way to implement such feature.

Trivia: It's likely sending Ctrl+C and reading clipboard to get the selected text. No easy cross-platform API for this lol.

Also note that the software is very old and poorly maintained.

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okasaki 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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jona-f 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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jacquesm 5 days ago | parent [-]

He could have claimed lack of awareness until it was brought up. After that that excuse no longer holds.

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lyu07282 5 days ago | parent [-]

No they could still be just incompetent/negligent rather than malicious. You also forget that they aren't running the translation services, they don't get any data, that's a separate third party you'd have to believe are in on it too. The more important question is if debian is gonna gkick them for it (they should).

	▲	jacquesm 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's a separate third party, with which they can be in cahoots, in fact it may not be that they are 'in on it too', it could well be that they are in fact the originators and sponsors of the way this works. Anyway, regardless of who is the culprit it is clear that the response spells 'wont fix' and that translates (in my book at least, pun intended) into 'works as intended'.