• Scolding7300@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      IMO I’d rather have that and have them clearly say they’re not using it for anything than potentially be profiled on WhatsApp where my friends keyboards are spying on their end in terms of content, i.e. be plugged into a social network with half the conversation exposed that way.

      I say sane in comparison to that.

      Granted these are my own concerns

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          1 year ago

          Wdym? I was under the impression that the Google native/default keyboard on Android feeds some stuff to their ad-related dataset

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            1 year ago

            do you change keyboards for different apps? The keyboard itself is a separate app. Switching whatsapp for telegram (of all things) means you switched the messaging app. You did not switch the keyboard app too.

            So if you think your keyboard is spying on you, that has absolutely nothing to do with messaging apps. At all

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              1 year ago

              I see the confusion, what I meant to say their keyboard is spying on them which includes their part of my conversation with them. Having an app broadcast the metadata of the conversations (whatsapp) + a keyboard spying on them = me getting profiled, somewhat.

              Although Meta tries to go Apple’s way and not share data (likewise for Google, iirc)