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Awesome, we're so close to having a speech-to-text system I can trust. I really wish Mozilla would release a keyboard app for Android. It would instantly be th

Awesome, we're so close to having a speech-to-text system I can trust. I really wish Mozilla would release a keyboard app for Android. It would instantly be the single most trusted keyboard available.

wslh 9y ago
Regarding Android keyboards, it is horrific that Google keyboard sends all your key presses, except passwords, to them.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
  ... it does what? Even if you disable the "Share Snippets" option?
  - jasonkostempski 9y ago
    I hope not but I only noticed the opt-out feature just a few weeks ago. It's sickening that Google thinks it's acceptable. Opt-in or opt-out, it never should have been considered a viable "feature" to include.
  - wslh 9y ago
    There is no official statement of Google about this but there is a generic Android warning saying "This method can collect all of the text that you enter except passwords including personal data and credit card numbers.". I wonder why Google doesn't explicitly say what they are doing. I don't want to distribute FUD but this is a critical component.
    - beojan 9y ago
      That's because any keyboard could, theoretically, be a keylogger.
  - api 9y ago
    Everything by Google sends everything to Google.
    - zeep 9y ago
      but most useful keyboards require permissions that are scary...
      - mkbkn 9y ago
        Have you checked Multiling O Keyboard app? (I used it more than 1 year ago, now I use a phone powered by Sailfish OS).
        zeep 9y ago
        no, but I have used the hacker's keyboard and it doesn't require any permissions, but it doesn't do swype which I like to use once in a while (but besides that, it's good)
- gisely 9y ago
  Does it? That would certainly be pretty alarming, but I can't seem to find any evidence that it does. The only relevant article I could find was this one on Gboard on iOS: https://www.macworld.com/article/3070767/ios/googles-gboard-doesnt-send-your-keystrokes-but-it-does-leak-chicken-and-noodles.html https://www.macworld.com/article/3070767/ios/googles-gboard-... Seems to suggest that that at least their iOS keyboard doesn't send any data while typing. Could be different on Android, but I didn't find any articles suggesting that they are doing this. Wouldn't put past them to make a quiet change of a policy though.

wslh 9y ago

Regarding Android keyboards, it is horrific that Google keyboard sends all your key presses, except passwords, to them.

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
... it does what? Even if you disable the "Share Snippets" option?
- jasonkostempski 9y ago
  I hope not but I only noticed the opt-out feature just a few weeks ago. It's sickening that Google thinks it's acceptable. Opt-in or opt-out, it never should have been considered a viable "feature" to include.
- wslh 9y ago
  There is no official statement of Google about this but there is a generic Android warning saying "This method can collect all of the text that you enter except passwords including personal data and credit card numbers.". I wonder why Google doesn't explicitly say what they are doing. I don't want to distribute FUD but this is a critical component.
  - beojan 9y ago
    That's because any keyboard could, theoretically, be a keylogger.
- api 9y ago
  Everything by Google sends everything to Google.
  - zeep 9y ago
    but most useful keyboards require permissions that are scary...
    - mkbkn 9y ago
      Have you checked Multiling O Keyboard app? (I used it more than 1 year ago, now I use a phone powered by Sailfish OS).
      - zeep 9y ago
        no, but I have used the hacker's keyboard and it doesn't require any permissions, but it doesn't do swype which I like to use once in a while (but besides that, it's good)
gisely 9y ago
Does it? That would certainly be pretty alarming, but I can't seem to find any evidence that it does. The only relevant article I could find was this one on Gboard on iOS: https://www.macworld.com/article/3070767/ios/googles-gboard-doesnt-send-your-keystrokes-but-it-does-leak-chicken-and-noodles.html https://www.macworld.com/article/3070767/ios/googles-gboard-... Seems to suggest that that at least their iOS keyboard doesn't send any data while typing. Could be different on Android, but I didn't find any articles suggesting that they are doing this. Wouldn't put past them to make a quiet change of a policy though.