Google: mind if we put a keylogger on your browser for spellchecking?
You: don’t
Google: OK, we won’t use the keylogger data for spellchecking
People: “Can we please get some government regulation against all this spying?”
The government: “Best we can do is some tax cuts for Google.”
They’ll just use all the other methods they have to track what your typing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/identify-keystrokes-just-sound-typing-175509837.html
Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing through a phone and over Zoom, with eerie results.
This was kinda overstated though. It really only works when you already have a dataset of that specific type on that specific keyboard. It’s not gonna just work on anyone.
Good distinction. I imagine anyone typing into a google search bar with an android device nearby could have their keyboard mapped though, if Google ever wanted to do such a thing.
Is this some kind of Chrome meme that I’m too Firefox to understand?
This is my guess. But I wouldn’t know.
Imagine using anything Chromium-based and supporting a wannabe monopoly.
Exactly.
It’s more a Google account thing afaik. You get the same prompt in Firefox if you use Gmail
Ah OK. Well, if you’re logged into a google account while browsing, you have no one to blame but yourself. (But also google.)
I use a Windows PC for work with Chrome because we are on G suite and it’s just easier that way. I am constantly annoyed by how terrible the spellcheck is within chrome. It did not used to be this bad. It highlights “thier” as misspelled but only suggests thief theirs and shier. Yeah… ok google. Expect me to believe that when AI is in every thing. I can run a LLM on same the laptop OFFLINE. Word 93 knew to autocorrect to their with no internet and no ai. Of course you get frustrated, go to settings and see this stupid little toggle. Fucking Google already… it will only get worse. They’re already key-logging you they just want to pay out less on a future class action settlement. Like the one they just settled for tracking user data during incognito sessions. God damned Google. Oh sorry, I mean aLpHaBeT. You guys like letters now do ya Google? Well here are my faves. F and U !
I’ve always wondered how that works. Are their databases just too large and it fucks up returns or is there someone smart out there purposely returning bad searches constantly to ruin their spell check. Is their dev inept? Lol.
Gboard was my go to for ages but finding a different keyboard on mobile has not been fun for off brand phones.
Sadly, the best alternative to GBoard on Android is Simple Keyboard, cause the spell check and word prediction on the other alternatives is more annoying than helpful, so it’s better to use an app that literally just writes what you type.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Foenthose wonderinf thisnid what Intyped without autocorrrect doing what I normally wpild. Simple Keyboard does not have an autocorrevt at all.
using chrome and expecting a little checkbox to stop them from tracking you.
theres no reason you shouldnt be using firefox if you are savvy enough to be on lemmy.
except they use it, and they’re on lemmy. Zealotry doesn’t lead to anything good
Zealotry convinced me to go vegan. After a few months on r/vegancirclejerk listening to them make fun of carnist rationalisations, I realised I really didn’t have an excuse for eating meat.
and I say yay, as long as you don’t expect me to become one too
I expect you not to pay people to kill innocents, regardless of the intelligence of the victim, because I do not believe in fascist arguments that the less capable are less deserving of decent treatment.
Ok, but you better be prepared for the fact that I don’t give a shit :)
something closer to zealotry would be using a browser from a data-mining corp and expecting privacy.
and not having privacy and expecting democracy not to die slowly.
- silly strawman
- silly silly exaggerated strawman
too bad
except thats exactly most peoples atitudes when they complain about it.
and yes, erosion of privacy is leading to erosion of democracy in many ways, thats pretty well estabilished.
you simply don’t know what you’re talking about and tbh it looks like you’re just in need of circlejerk fella. Sorry, I am not
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It’s so fucking annoying how I can’t turn grammar check off in google docs on my phone. I’m not sure how bad grammar check is if you write in English, but in Finnish it’s such a clusterfuck because it always tries to ‘correct’ compound words and doesn’t understand declension.
It’s tolerable if you’re writing something quite prescribed; business reports, perhaps. It’s too limited and obsessed with tedious bullshit if you’re writing prose, say. It wouldn’t do to express yourself.
Jokes on
youhumanity, hitting ‘no’ is just another data point that they can use to compare you to millions of other people and use the aggregate data to predict what you’re probably going to do anyway.Not super exciting story, but this just happened like 10mins ago. I was looking for Radon Mitigiation service near me and made a typo and spelled Radon as “Rason”, it autocorrected to “Ramen”.
Why would anyone want to mitigate ramen.
Too much sodium
add 2/3 potatoes
“I’m not a cop you can trust me”
Got something similar on my fire stick the other day. It said it could help me get back to the shows I love watching faster if I turn on the new feature that shares all the data from the different apps directly with Amazon.
The only options were yes and ask later. I had to go to settings to find and turn it off.
Google has already gotten you there, like a million times
What is ‘advanced spell check’ anyway? A double red line goes under the words you really spell the wrong way?
So what’s a good alt keyboard on Android? (for swiping)
https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
It lacks predictive text but it’s in development.
It has swipe?
It does
Unfortunately no. It’s in development with predictive text.
Gotta love modern technology that can’t keep up with T9 from the 90’s.
You done a lot of swipe typing on your phone in the 90’s?
No, did a fuck tonne of correct spelling though.
Use OpenBoard, https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard
Florisboard is great and all but its annoying without the predictive text, and i doubt they’re ever gonna add it
https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/discussions/2314#discussion-5761611
According to this it’s still planned, though time will tell.
Seems like openboard does not have swipe?
Google- seeing as your response was in a mirror we decided to turn on this feature. Deactivation will require you to call the help desk.
also, there is no help desk.
Anyone know where to turn this on? I might want this. My spelling is so bad I often have to do this anyway.
