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

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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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I feel like there should be a Lemmy version of everything now

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):

https://gitlab.com/linuxcafefederation/awesome-alternatives/-/blob/master/README.md

This list is good free, open source (FOSS) Android keyboards:

https://github.com/offa/android-foss#-keyboard

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.

Even lemmy has privacy problems if you don't know.

Explain please :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/144clka/warning_lemmy_federated_reddit_clone_doesnt_care/ Though it says misleading title, there is some truth to that (read the article)

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.