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What's the worst privacy compromise that you are willing to admit you make? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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I've got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn't? Any tools that you're just waiting for a chance to replace but can't yet?

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[–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah you have pretty much all the same hard lines I have, minus some unusual shit I revoked about my employment history. How do you personally feel about phone keyboards? Is being able to type coherently worth using a product that is collecting keystroke data? Like assume that you are unable to speak respectably at all without it

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I kinda have a niche/weird view on keyboards; I use the default aosp keyboard firewalled for no internet access and with spell check turned off. I find it annoying when it changes what I say, and if Idk how to spell something I look it up and try to remember it for next time. I have typos here and there but mostly I don't mind and I feel it makes me more deliberate in my use of language.

    There are also plenty of open source and generally privacy-respecting keyboards on FDroid like Urik keyboard, so no compromise is needed imo

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    Fair enough. I've been on the goosechase through different privacy focused boards for a couple years. All of them have issues with substituting words in ways that don't make sense because they're not hooked up to the privacy-nightmare that is datasets that most common products use for predictive text.

    Your take still helps me gauge what privacy minded folk consider is or isn't acceptable risk though so thank you for sharing

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