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.

• Anamana@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why? Useful for safety and security of the society?

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  • cassetti@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do people use Facebook and Instagram? Because they think it's cool and fun to share with friends, regardless what data FB is gathering on them.

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    • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought we are talking about a keyboard app?

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, wtf is that equivalency?

        “Why do people smoke”

        “Well some people like to eat at restaurants or watch movies with their friends so”

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      • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was a “what about” analogy. It compares a app that steals data without the users consent and the other one is the keyboard app. Both seem to be wanted by consumers despite the steeling parts.

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  • godless@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Comes with a built in translator and spell checker, and since access to Google translate is blocked, that’s often the only alternative.

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    • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah ok makes sense

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some weird downvotes, and I want to know too. Why does a keyboard app mean anything to anyone? The keyboards included on iOS and latest Android versions are great.

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    • thekinghaslost@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t know about this keyboard or Chinese, but a language specific feature might be one of the reason.

      I use SwiftKey and I love how it supports multilingual autocorrect and prediction for Indonesian and English without needing to switch between keyboard language.

      iOS built in keyboard supports multilingual typing for some languages, but not Indonesian.

      I assume people love it also because some specific feature that doesn’t exist in the stock keyboard.

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