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Is there something wrong with SwiftKey? That'd mean so much work for me as I'm using extensively.

• kotajacob 9y ago
  It's pretty clearly key-logging and on top of that they've had poor security in the past which is not great when they're key-logging everything you type. Personally I can't say I took the high ground though I just blocked swiftkey with a firewall and figure that's good enough for me.
  • maaark 9y ago
    pretty clearly? Got a source or anything to back that up?
    • egeozcan 9y ago
      I researched a bit and apparently they had a bug which made the cloud sync leak the personal data of others: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swiftkey-bug-backup-sync-down-error-prediction https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swi...
      • lima 9y ago
        Cloud sync is opt in and I don't know why anyone in their right mind would enable it... That being said, using a closed source application packed with features (also known as "attack surface") as your main input method clearly isn't ideal.
        • positivecomment 9y ago
          Well, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.
    • rmc 9y ago
      How else does it know what to predict without logging what keys you press?
  • Nitishshah700 9y ago
    yeah and that's why i block it assess to internet using afwall+