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Controller input while game window is not focused

I recently discovered, the hard way, that bedrock edition will keep reading controller inputs while the game is in the background. This is a pretty unique edge case for most players but, when you aren’t expecting it, it’s very bad. I found this out the hard way, by forgetting I had opened Minecraft for windows at some point and had opened another game on steam that I was playing with controller. The best part is I managed to press all the right inputs to buy $20 worth of minecoins. Mind you, I never interact with microtransactions, especially not in Minecraft, so finding out this happened 2 hours later via an email was a huge surprise and I thought I got hacked or something at first. Anyway, my feedback would be to add an option to disable controller inputs while the game window is not focused. At the very least add more verification in the minecoin purchase process so it needs my windows pin or something to confirm the purchase.
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    This has unfortunately happened to me too, freaked me out. Please disable controller inputs while the game is minimized. Afk farms are important to my server and i like to play another game while i do that. 

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    i had to chargeback a minecoin purchase because i had Windows Minecraft Bedrock minimized while using my DualSense controller to play a different game. PLEASE FIX THIS!