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This claim, without a source, runs the risk of being misinformation, which is a massive problem in 2025. Can you provide a reliable source to verify it?
by frays 1y ago
This claim, without a source, runs the risk of being misinformation, which is a massive problem in 2025.
Can you provide a reliable source to verify it?
- colonelxc 1y agohttps://research.google/pubs/federated-learning-for-mobile-keyboard-prediction-2/ https://research.google/pubs/federated-learning-for-mobile-k...
- dmesg 1y agoThanks for getting ahead of me. I add their competitor MS doing the same even more openly: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-swiftkey-keyboard-sharing-your-typing-data-faq-d737059d-8810-448e-b376-9af56171a37d https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-swiftkey... Always assume companies will gather, use and share your data in all ways they legally can. The burden of proof is never on the user that companies don't milk us. Calling it "misinformation" as someone further above did is bizarre. This is the default business model of big tech.
- interloxia 1y agoFederated Learning of Gboard Language Models with Differential Privacy It's not nothing, but it's something. And, at least on my phone, it's not obvious if it can be turned off. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?lr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Federated%20Learning%20of%20Gboard%20Language%20Models%20with%20Differential%20Privacy%20Peter%20Kairouz%20Zheng%20Xu%20Yanxiang%20Zhang%20Christopher%20Choquette%20Brendan%20McMahan%20Galen%20Andrew%20Jesse%20Rosenstock%20Yuanbo%20Zhang https://scholar.google.com/scholar?lr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Fe...
- Physkal 1y agoAny recommendations on android keyboards?
- drilbo 1y agoI recommended FUTO keyboard in sibling comment. FlorisBoard is a nice FOSS option, but some features are still WIP. Personally, I've switched fully to ThumbKey, but that's got quite a learning curve.
- drilbo 1y agoYou can always opt out of using gboard altogether. FUTO Keyboard is quite nice.
- interloxia 1y agoThanks for the suggestion. It supports multi-lingual typing which in a requirement for me. I haven't checked other keyboards for a long time so perhaps that has become more common. The integration with whisper is nice too.
- kelvinjps 1y agoI don't find the multilingual features as polished as Gboard, this is what prevents me from switching, in Gboard you can install multiple languages and write without having to switch and it will provide autosuggestions and spelling support based on the language you're typing without having to manually change the language
- troyvit 1y agoHeliboard is another good one: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
- 48terry 1y agoPhew, thank goodness someone policed this HN comment's quip about a multi-billion dollar company. May I recommend a more ambitious target in your war on misinformation next?
- SquareWheel 1y agoWhether it's aimed at large companies or not, I'd still rather not see misinformation spread. People already have poor enough understandings of what companies actually do and don't collect. There exists ongoing conspiracy theories that phones actively listen to conversations while in your pocket, despite there being no evidence to such a claim. Facts do matter, and I appreciate those that make an effort to state them correctly.
- rpdillon 1y agoYeah, the facts were stated correctly. They just didn't provide a source. That doesn't make it misinformation. It means it's a claim without a source. But to answer the question, Gboard absolutely uses your data. And it's right there in its privacy policy.
- lwhi 1y agoMisinformation isn't more or less appropriate depending on the target.