Privacy with Google's Gboard

Android@lemdro.id – 242 points – 1 years ago

The only app I can't live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard's swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I'd like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I've heard, it sends all typing data to Google's server. If you ask me, that's a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

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Used FlorisBoard for a good while, it's the perfect replacement imo. I don't remember exactly but there was a certain feature missing for me so I uninstalled it but it may have been implemented by now.

The major feature that's missing is autocorrect, rely on it a lot

I checked every keyboard on F-Droid, Floris is the best keyboard you can find now.

Same and I agree, I'll have to download it again later.

Well outside of F-droid (for some reason) is OpenBoard with gesture typing

I only trust F-Droid and I don't install any apps from outside of it!