Comment by aragilar

I'm not sure how Wayland specifically prevents the privacy issue on its own (it can't block network calls), it seems it's down to not implementing the required Wayland calls, but I would be surprised if there was no portal or DBus or similar IPC to get the clipboard on Wayland (which is called out in the package description as noted by the maintainer). The issue is what the app plugin does with the clipboard data, while it's not something I want, I can see people wanting automatic lookups of words.

I think in a similar way to how xz attack required integration via systemd to exist, this is really more about defaults and integrations (which the last message from the maintainer acknowledges and seems to be fixing). https://xkcd.com/2044/ is as always an ever-present problem.