The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I’ve heard, it sends all typing data to Google’s server. If you ask me, that’s a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

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      51 year ago

      Why is everyone obsessed with constant updates? It’s not broken, there’s nothing to fix. It’s a keyboard, I prefer it to be fast, reliable and not phone home.

      I don’t need some bloated mess that will take 10 seconds to start and require a gigabyte of RAM because the devs need to push an update every week with new useless crap without testing it.

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        61 year ago

        Regular updates doesn’t mean, new features all the time. It mostly means security updates, which are important.

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          1 year ago

          It doesn’t have internet accesss. There isn’t much to worry about.

          Ed: I understand that non-internet apps can be used for attacks as well, but maybe there just hasn’t been anything to update.

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      11 year ago

      There are active forks, it might take some time until a successor is found that includes all MRs.