Clipboard content is logged when pasting text into note body when using Rich Text Editor

[mrjo118]

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.2.12

Desktop version info

No response

Current behaviour

-Enable the Rich Text Editor
-Copy some text to the clipboard
-Paste the text into a note
-The entire text pasted is written to the log file

Expected behaviour

Content pasted from the clipboard should not be written to the log, as this is a privacy issue when sharing log files. When using the markdown editor, currently no such logging occurs

Logs

2025-02-20 10:40:48: shouldPasteResources: Pasted text: Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which helps you write and organise your notes, and synchronise them between your devices. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the application directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Joplin is available as a desktop, mobile and terminal application.
2025-02-20 10:40:48: shouldPasteResources: Pasted HTML:
2025-02-20 10:40:48: shouldPasteResources: Resources: []
2025-02-20 10:40:48: shouldPasteResources: Not pasting resources only because the clipboard contains plain text
2025-02-20 10:40:48: TinyMCE: onPaste: pasting as text

[personalizedrefrigerator]

I'm linking to the related code:

joplin/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/NoteBody/TinyMCE/utils/shouldPasteResources.ts

Line 23 in 0c40595

logger.info('Pasted text:', pastedText);

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[laurent22]

This is by design so that we can help users troubleshoot issues related to pasting text (it's often hard to know what happens exactly when something is pasted). Maybe we could crop the pasted text to reduce privacy issues.

[mrjo118]

This is by design so that we can help users troubleshoot issues related to pasting text (it's often hard to know what happens exactly when something is pasted). Maybe we could crop the pasted text to reduce privacy issues.

Yes, if you must log the pasted contents then it should be trimmed to just a small snippet, as people can paste entire note contents when doing note reorganisation