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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] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Gboard with every connection blocked through Rethink Firewall except for "media.tenor.com" and "tenor.googleapis.com" (because GIFs are cool).

I will never really know whether it really protects my privacy or if Google has other means to exfiltrate my data, but from Rethink logs it seems to be working. Unfortunately I have never found any keyboard as good as Gboard, so I would say this a risk I am personally willing to take for the convenience of a great keyboard. What would you say?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Gboard with every connection blocked through Rethink Firewall except for “media.tenor.com” and “tenor.googleapis.com” (because GIFs are cool).

How can I specifically do this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sorry about the delay.

  1. Install Rethink Firewall and follow instructions to configure it;
  2. In "Apps" set Gboard to "Isolate";
  3. Add two domain rules for the two Tenor domains as "Trust".

That's all.

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