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Anysoft Keyboard Private? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Just started using AnySoftKeyboard and I'm loving it so far. But I want to know if it is actually private and safe to use.

Thanks!

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Interesting, do you know if it's in F-Droid? Or did you install the APK from GitHub?

When I follow your link and tap on the F-Droid link it takes me to the original OpenBoard instead of this fork. I guess they might just have kept the original Readme file with the F-Droid link to the original app...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's not on F-Droid, likely because the swipe implementation that they've injected doesn't have an OSS license. There's a whole discussion on it in this thread. There's no privacy issue here as the fork also doesn't have network permissions or anything, but I can see why they'd be skeptical adding this piece of code to the main repo which has a proper FOSS license.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    OK, thanks for your reply. I'll get the APK from GitHub and try it soon then. I hope there's some way of removing words that the App's dictionary has learned too. It drives me mad that OpenBoard has learned some of my spelling mistakes and now autocorrects to them.

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