Violentmonkey: Version 2.8.9 requires access to the clipboard - Why did you do that?

[led9]

Why do you need my clipboard, author, you decided to steal my passwords or what?

[led9]

I DON'T have firefox = WHY you need MY clipboard?
what kind of solution is this, can firefox users send you data of their bank cards, and from users of other browsers you will not demand it?

[gera2ld]

First, there is a function called GM_setClipboard to be used in userscripts, hope you know that, to write to clipboard.
Second, the permission required (clipboardWrite) is to write to clipboard, not to read, which is exactly what GM_setClipboard does. Even with the currently required permissions, nothing can be read from the clipboard.

On Chrome, the extension can write to clipboard in the background no matter whether this permission is required. But on Firefox it must be required, otherwise GM_setClipboard fails. So I added this permission to make it work on both browsers. More details can be found here.

I think you can just uninstall the extension to keep yourself safe from me.
And I hate the word "steal" from a user without knowing anything about what I am doing.