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Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck.

Ok, I get that surveillance is good for predictions. Put another way, predictions are tough without collecting everything everyone types. Is there a best-of-both-worlds keyboard out there? I'd be patient enough to give it some time to learn how I type and get better.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't seem to have swipe typing, which is important for me. Otherwise it's great.

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

ahh, yeah swipe typing is really tough to inplement well without data collection. i used to use it a lot back before i completely degoogled and id be lying if i said i didnt miss it. i honestly just couldn't find any foss keyboards at all that had swipe typing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a fork that supports it, though it looks like it has become inactive, if you care about that https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard