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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:19PM (#16318707)
Mostly because cloud-connected keyloggers are mainstream. As I mentioned, Windows does it if you have their "inking and typing" setting enabled. A lot of mobile keyboard apps do it, especially if they say they use the cloud to help correct your typing.

Of course, in the case of Microsoft or Google, you presumably either have disabled the setting or you place your trust in their security practices that it is okay, because they are top tier companies, and most people send them all their private data anyways.

There are a LOT of things out there that collect everything you type these days, and rarely to people want to define them as keyloggers.

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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by Feniks on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:21PM (#16320487)
If it acts like a keylogger its a keylogger.

When people want privacy they will inevitably have to give up usability. I ditched Swiftkey for an open source Android keyboard that doesn't connect online or asks for any permissions. Its CRAP but it doesn't leak.

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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by rhizome on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:01PM (#16320767)
Ooh, what keyboard? Does it have gesture typing, and is it better than gboard (Google's own), which is the worst I've ever used?
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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by lcampbell on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:57PM (#16321426)
I can't speak for GP, but I switched to Hacker's Keyboard[1] which doesn't support gesture typing. I'm pretty happy with it, though it's pretty barebones (it doesn't even turn on the phone's radio). Took a bit getting used to -- the recommendations are different and it felt like the key hitboxes weren't the same as gboard, but it felt pretty familiar after a couple of weeks.

[1] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard

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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by alexanderdmitri on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:23PM (#16321569)
Thanks for this, exactly what I've been looking for
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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by teddythetwig on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:16AM (#16324906)
You should check out MessagEase keyboard. It is so accurate for me that I don't even need corrections. It takes a little bit of time to get used to, but once you get the hang of it, it's super fast.
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Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites by z3t4 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:39AM (#16323070)
top tier doesn't necessary mean better security. Your data being accessible from the cloud is a security risk by itself and these companies are huge targets for hackers, and will share your data with state actors, or worse advertisers, for-profit data miners et.al.
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