https://www.howtogeek.com/348699/how-to-see-what-data-windows-10-is-sending-to-microsoft/

Tencent began investing on Reddit several years back.

Never use a closed source keyboard app. It can read what you send for messages, websites you go to, search engine queries.

In fact it's hard to find open source Chinese input methods that work well enough, the only ones I know of are Trime and Fcitx5_for_android.

Joke's on them I don't tap I swipe

The most popular Western OS (and probably the other commercial OSs too) sends every key typed back to base. Plus every website visited. Plus every document amended.

I'm willing to bet that Google keyboards do the same.

Just gonna plug FlorisBoard here. A bit barebones for now but at least it respects your privacy.

It's to help improve the user experience right? ...right?

that's why i use my dick to type haha

FOSS keyboards for Android:

• Unexpected Keyboard
• AnySoftKeyboard

surveillance fetish going strong

This is beyond creepy

surprised pikachu face - who would’ve thought?

What's the deal with Android "keyboards"? Why is it just an app that you can install? And why can it have more functionality/permissions from the OS beyond just being a local keyboard? As an iOS user this is very bizarre and foreign to me.

I feel like every time the topic of Android keyboards (again, why is this a thing?) comes up it's some kind of big spyware thing. Seems like most every app on Android and iOS is spyware anyway, of course.

So when the Chinese do it it's scary, but when the Americans do it it's just "established practice"?