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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by dspillett on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:52AM (#16316516)
I've not found time to try any of them yet so I can't comment on how they compare to Grammarly, but there are F/OSS alternatives.

https://languagetool.org/ for one supports running your own instance of the server-side portion out-of-the-box. You could run it truly locally assuming your device is appropriate, or your own server which might be more flexible as you can support a greater range of devices and share custom dictionaries between them.

Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by oneweekwonder on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:18AM (#16316738)
> This extension will check your text by sending it to https://languagetool.org over an encrypted connection. Your text will not be stored.

Gives me a "privacy policy", "continue and don't ask again" or "cancel" hyperlink, nothing else. If I want to use it the first time.

But if you open the extension options under the "more tools" > extensions tab you can set the LanguageTool API server URL[0].

Going to try to setup a server over the weekend, thanks.

[0]: http://wiki.languagetool.org/http-server