Comment on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.

ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No they don’t

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It sends whole words instead!

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Any data you submit to Google is stored and analysed. That’s different from analysing keystrokes as they happen though.

      I’m all for criticising invasive data use and collection which Google is definitely guilty of. It’s not the same as keylogging though which is not just a privacy concern but a pretty serious security one as well. Also we have actual evidence here of Tencent doing this which makes a difference to me at least.

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  • supercheesecake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not sure if that’s true. You know, it’s Google. Every keystroke in your gmail email is analysed, so can’t imagine gboard is any different to them.

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We can’t know for sure if they’re not open source

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• SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This “they’re all bad” shit aimed at the Chinese government makes me so sad. How many of you dullards have even heard of Tienanmen square

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  • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The downvotes tell me some people need to Google Tienanmen square. From outside China. Inside china, it didn’t happen. Erases from history

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    • addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not called the ‘Tiananmen Square’ by the Chinese - that’s just the name of the place. Either 六四屠殺 (June 4 massacre) or 六四鎮壓 (June 4 crackdown) would be more likely. And yes, expect loads of downvoting on Lemmy if you’re ever critical of China.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They don’t.

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• throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I prefer OpenBoard, it doesn’t send keystrokes to any server

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  • august_senpai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fork even has support for swipe, autocorrect, word prediction, clipboard management, etc, and is way more lightweight than Gboard and the rest. Zero reason to use anything else at the moment.

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    • portside@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s the fork? I’ve been using Florisboard beta (ehich is also opensource) and pretty happy with it. The only things I miss is swipe for dictionary words

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      • august_senpai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        github.com/Helium314/openboard

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While GBoard is closed source, they have documented that they use federated learning. Meaning their model is generated on-device and only the inferences are sent to Google.

  That being said, I use OpenBoard.

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  • itsJoelle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plus it also has the feature where you can drag on the space bar to move the letterhead!

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not if you block internet connection at system level. I think it can be done if GBoard in installed as an user app, not as a system one.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Might as well just use Open Board.

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course. My “problem” is that I need to write in 3 languages at the same time and switching languages manually in Open board is a bit cumbersome, while in GBoard it happens automatically.

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