“Your keyboard may occasionally capture ‘snippets’ of your typing. This includes short phrases, plus data about the keypresses you made to type the words, and whether you deleted or changed anything. These snippets are captured anonymously and you do not need to be signed in to share them.”
If it’s a app, including fucking tik tok you bunch of morons, that was developed by a Chinese company all of the data on your device is going back to the CCP. It’s just that fucking simple people.
That’s a bit over the top. The app only has access to the data you give it permission to access. So TikTok may have access to your contacts (don’t give TikTok access to your contacts, guys), but it won’t have access to your text messages or activity data.
I don’t get it? Why are they talking in the article about not using the right type of encryption. The problem isn’t the encryption, but the fact that it is sending your keystrokes to the mothership, right?
That seems less of an article and more of a hit job. I’d be more comfortable believing what was said in that blog if it was substantiated by other more well-known media sources.
Also it seems like it would go against the EU laws for deleting account data, which they would have to implement.
I recommend free and open source software for everyone. Everything on this list is curated to feature the best alternatives to common proprietary software (according to Linux Cafe):
I think the best two are Simple Keyboard and AnySoftKeyboard. Simple Keyboard is pleasant to use, but is missing a several advanced features. ASK would be perfect if the swipe typing worked (it’s currently listed as beta, and is mostly actuate, but unfortunately when it does make a mistake fixing it is almost painful).
Finally, try to get comfortable going to alternativeto.net when you get frustrated with software. Worst case scenario you get frustrated with different software for a bit and switch back. Of course it notes the price and license model for each alternative.
ASK would be perfect if the swipe typing worked (it’s currently listed as beta, and is mostly actuate, but unfortunately when it does make a mistake fixing it is almost painful).
It crashes for me so often that I finally gave up using it.
Also there was a weird bug of where if you were working on a long document, towards the bottom of the document all of a sudden it will drag you all the way up to the top of the document, so then you had to scroll all the way back to where you were before, at the bottom of the document.
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