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Gboard safe to use with network permission revoked? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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for English i use heliboard. but i type in other languages also, and there are no practical choices in foss keyboards for those specific languages which also have the mainstream IME/key layout for my language (not qwerty).

fcitx provides some hope for the future but for now, it also doesn't have the IME/key layout for my language (only has qwerty). hopefully it can also have handwriting in the future somehow (if only via user-installed model/blob similar to heliboard glide typing).

anyway, I'm on Graphene OS. so i wondered if revoking network permission and setting gboard permanently to incognito (is permanent possible?) would suffice to cut off data collection?

edit: FYI the languages/key layouts i need are Japanese via 12-key flick and Cantonese via traditional Chinese handwriting input

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Given GrapheneOS does not have privileged Google Services, revoking network permissions should completely stop any data from leaving GBoard.

On other ROMs with privileged Google Services this might not be the case, altough I don't expect it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I’d just as soon not use google apps, where possible.

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