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[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 176 points 10 months ago

Google: mind if we put a keylogger on your browser for spellchecking?

You: don't

Google: OK, we won't use the keylogger data for spellchecking

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

People: "Can we please get some government regulation against all this spying?"

The government: "Best we can do is some tax cuts for Google."

[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

They'll just use all the other methods they have to track what your typing.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/identify-keystrokes-just-sound-typing-175509837.html

Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing through a phone and over Zoom, with eerie results.

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

This was kinda overstated though. It really only works when you already have a dataset of that specific type on that specific keyboard. It's not gonna just work on anyone.

[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Good distinction. I imagine anyone typing into a google search bar with an android device nearby could have their keyboard mapped though, if Google ever wanted to do such a thing.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 128 points 10 months ago

Is this some kind of Chrome meme that I'm too Firefox to understand?

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

This is my guess. But I wouldn't know.

[-] asuka@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

Imagine using anything Chromium-based and supporting a wannabe monopoly.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] KirbyProton@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

It's more a Google account thing afaik. You get the same prompt in Firefox if you use Gmail

[-] ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 10 months ago

I use a Windows PC for work with Chrome because we are on G suite and it’s just easier that way. I am constantly annoyed by how terrible the spellcheck is within chrome. It did not used to be this bad. It highlights “thier” as misspelled but only suggests thief theirs and shier. Yeah… ok google. Expect me to believe that when AI is in every thing. I can run a LLM on same the laptop OFFLINE. Word 93 knew to autocorrect to their with no internet and no ai. Of course you get frustrated, go to settings and see this stupid little toggle. Fucking Google already… it will only get worse. They’re already key-logging you they just want to pay out less on a future class action settlement. Like the one they just settled for tracking user data during incognito sessions. God damned Google. Oh sorry, I mean aLpHaBeT. You guys like letters now do ya Google? Well here are my faves. F and U !

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I've always wondered how that works. Are their databases just too large and it fucks up returns or is there someone smart out there purposely returning bad searches constantly to ruin their spell check. Is their dev inept? Lol.

Gboard was my go to for ages but finding a different keyboard on mobile has not been fun for off brand phones.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 38 points 10 months ago

using chrome and expecting a little checkbox to stop them from tracking you.

theres no reason you shouldnt be using firefox if you are savvy enough to be on lemmy.

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 months ago

It's so fucking annoying how I can't turn grammar check off in google docs on my phone. I'm not sure how bad grammar check is if you write in English, but in Finnish it's such a clusterfuck because it always tries to 'correct' compound words and doesn't understand declension.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago

It's tolerable if you're writing something quite prescribed; business reports, perhaps. It's too limited and obsessed with tedious bullshit if you're writing prose, say. It wouldn't do to express yourself.

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Jokes on ~~you~~ humanity, hitting 'no' is just another data point that they can use to compare you to millions of other people and use the aggregate data to predict what you're probably going to do anyway.

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 months ago

Not super exciting story, but this just happened like 10mins ago. I was looking for Radon Mitigiation service near me and made a typo and spelled Radon as “Rason”, it autocorrected to “Ramen”.

[-] RQG@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Why would anyone want to mitigate ramen.

[-] crsu@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago
[-] superbirra@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

add 2/3 potatoes

[-] crsu@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

"I'm not a cop you can trust me"

[-] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Got something similar on my fire stick the other day. It said it could help me get back to the shows I love watching faster if I turn on the new feature that shares all the data from the different apps directly with Amazon.

The only options were yes and ask later. I had to go to settings to find and turn it off.

[-] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Google has already gotten you there, like a million times

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

What is 'advanced spell check' anyway? A double red line goes under the words you really spell the wrong way?

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

So what's a good alt keyboard on Android? (for swiping)

[-] RayZ3R0@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Use OpenBoard, https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard

Florisboard is great and all but its annoying without the predictive text, and i doubt they're ever gonna add it

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 3 points 10 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Seems like openboard does not have swipe?

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 2 points 10 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 points 10 months ago
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[-] DrPop@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Google- seeing as your response was in a mirror we decided to turn on this feature. Deactivation will require you to call the help desk.

[-] Remoed@lemmings.world -1 points 10 months ago

Anyone know where to turn this on? I might want this. My spelling is so bad I often have to do this anyway.

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