Privacy with Google's Gboard

noob@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.id – 242 points –

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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OpenBoard, Florisboard, AnySoftKeyboard

THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES, PEOPLE!

I installed all three.

OpenBoard has no swiping support at all.

AnySoftKeyboard is glitchy, moving the cursor around unexpectedly and inserting spurious characters.

FlorisBoard's swiping is very inaccurate, to the point that it's barely faster than typing characters one-by-one.

I hope this situation improves soon…