Why did the OnePlus 3T’s Oreo beta send clipboard data to an Alibaba server

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Why did the OnePlus 3T’s Oreo beta send clipboard data to an Alibaba server.




A user that goes by the name of v1nc recently posted on the OnePlus forums to say that a new system app was displaying odd behavior during the OnePlus 3T Oreo beta. Normally this wouldn’t be news, because it is a beta, after all, and the app doesn’t exist in stable builds of OxygenOS. But, according to v1nc, the app named “com.oneplus.clipboard” attempted to access the network to communicate with an outside server. The IP address points towards an Alibaba-owned server.

Android Police reached out to OnePlus for a statement. This is what it had to say:



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