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If developer was a Business, they might try asking for mediation: "If you are a developer based in the EU and you offer goods or services to consumers located in the EU, you may also apply to resolve a dispute with Google Play through mediation." [ https://support.google.com/legal/answer/9792937 ]. No such luck for open-source developers.
What part of that do Open Source developers not meet?
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I don't know of a keyboard that replicates Swype's exact behavior (swiping from the Swype button to C or V). For rapid text manipulation, AnySoftKeyboard lets you swipe up from the spacebar to show a utility menu with buttons for cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, text selection mode, home, end, and the 4 arrow keys. Copying and pasting in AnySoftKeyboard is pretty quick. It's also free and open source. https://anysoftkey…
I like it -- it's less taps than Swype-A, Swype-C because you usually select all and then copy right away. Thanks!
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When I read the privacy policy for the Samsung keyboard pre-installed on my phone and started following the links I was shocked that it was a literal keylogger sending every key press to 3rd parties who said they would use it read every word and phrase I typed to try to guess what my interests were, who I was communicating with, and what my level of cognitive ability/education was! I'd had no idea. Replaced my keyboa…
If a company sold me a device with a keylogger installed on I would never buy anything from that company again. I would also not let that device on my network, ever.
Another malicious developer most likely used his source code and republished/spammed the Google play store with the said reskin. The original developer, is now associated with the malicious developer and has his account terminated. It's not the first time an open source project gets removed from the Google store for "prior violations of the developer program policies".
When I read the privacy policy for the Samsung keyboard pre-installed on my phone and started following the links I was shocked that it was a literal keylogger sending every key press to 3rd parties who said they would use it read every word and phrase I typed to try to guess what my interests were, who I was communicating with, and what my level of cognitive ability/education was! I'd had no idea. Replaced my keyboa…
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When I read the privacy policy for the Samsung keyboard pre-installed on my phone and started following the links I was shocked that it was a literal keylogger sending every key press to 3rd parties who said they would use it read every word and phrase I typed to try to guess what my interests were, who I was communicating with, and what my level of cognitive ability/education was! I'd had no idea. Replaced my keyboa…
what did you replace the keyboard with?
It's highly customizable, far better for programing and terminal work, and my only complaint is that the spell check is vastly inferior to the default I replaced. I suppose that's to be expected when you can't leverage the kind of data Samsung gets by spying on so many people's every word. I prefer to look at it as an opportunity to improve my spelling since I've gotten pretty damn lazy letting spellcheck figure out what I intended to type on the desktop.
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If a company sold me a device with a keylogger installed on I would never buy anything from that company again. I would also not let that device on my network, ever.
I would try to raise a stink with local authorities because that is almost definitely illegal.
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When I read the privacy policy for the Samsung keyboard pre-installed on my phone and started following the links I was shocked that it was a literal keylogger sending every key press to 3rd parties who said they would use it read every word and phrase I typed to try to guess what my interests were, who I was communicating with, and what my level of cognitive ability/education was! I'd had no idea. Replaced my keyboa…
If a company sold me a device with a keylogger installed on I would never buy anything from that company again. I would also not let that device on my network, ever.
I'm not saying that Google was right to do this, but this has to be taken with a grain of salt because we don't really know what the circumstances were. Can the user prove his claims that he wasn't notified about violations in the past? No he can't (more info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P... ). In this case, Google would have to prove that they actually emailed the person, but I do…
One is a developer putting his reputation on the line for a free open-source product he has put hundreds of hours of work into. The other is a faceless trillion dollar advertising company operated mostly via black-box Machine Learning with a very public history of incorrectly censoring users and terminating accounts. I know who I would tend to trust.
I'm not saying that Google was right to do this, but this has to be taken with a grain of salt because we don't really know what the circumstances were. Can the user prove his claims that he wasn't notified about violations in the past? No he can't (more info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P... ). In this case, Google would have to prove that they actually emailed the person, but I do…
How does one prove that they did not receive the violation notifications? Regardless, is it that hard for Google to actually list out the specific violations in the termination notice and provide a direct, responsive way to address them?
Off topic, can anyone recommend an Android keyboard that allows copy and paste the way Swype did (swipe to c, swipe to v) since Swype went out of business and the stock Google keyboard bizarrely doesn't let you copy and paste?