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?

    • AphoticDev
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      41 year ago

      Oh shit you’re right! I forgot all about Swype. I used that too, back in the day.

    • SeaJ
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      31 year ago

      I loved Swype. Nuance made it a pile of shit though. One annoying thing after they bought it was that ‘K.’ would always autocorrect to K. d. Lang. You could not tell it to stop doing that.

      I use SwiftKey now. Microsoft is getting more of my data.

      • ijeffM
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        11 year ago

        I never ran into that issue, but it might be because I write okay!