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Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer

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Post by tweetle_beetle »

trickstra wrote: post #70
Noumenon72 wrote: post #44

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?

Floris keyboard (also on f-droid) has copy & paste buttons directly above the letters. Faster than swiping.

I would recommend FlorisBoard[1] to anyone looking for an alternative to Google/OEM apps. It is in beta and lacks a bit of polish, but the rate of development is very high and the results already much better than some of the other open source keyboard apps which have stagnated for a long time.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard

Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer

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Post by raffraffraff »

skoskie wrote: post #59
autoexec wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The irony is that if you install Lineage OS on a Samsung tablet, your cleaner OS is deemed 'unsafe' because you fucked with the bootloader.

Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer

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chasil wrote: post #26
weberer wrote: post #4

That's unfortunate. Luckily there's still the package in F-Droid.

Google should be forced and compelled to accept everything in F-Droid into the Play store. Google ought to have to appeal for removals from this avenue, and that process should be intentionally difficult. F-Droid developers should be able to opt out, of course, but this constraint placed upon Google would bring many developers and apps back that have (unfairly) faced the night of the long knives.

This is an honest question - totally non rhetorical. What would be the difference between this, and consumers just using F-Droid?

Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer

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Post by chasil »

alex11111111 wrote: post #74
chasil wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google should be forced and compelled to accept everything in F-Droid into the Play store. Google ought to have to appeal for removals from this avenue, and that process should be intentionally difficult. F-Droid developers should be able to opt out, of course, but this constraint placed upon Google would bring many developers and apps back that have (unfairly) faced the night of the long knives.

This is an honest question - totally non rhetorical. What would be the difference between this, and consumers just using F-Droid?

Google has a history of removing non-malicious apps from Play that apparently break no terms of service.

Developers so removed should be able to (partially) re-monetize by coming through F-Droid.

The problem at Apple is worse; perhaps this would work there too.

Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer

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Post by raxi »

IiydAbITMvJkqKf wrote: post #5
rvz wrote: post #2

This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software. > Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time. Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the…

People need to stop bringing up F-Droid in response to Google supsending accounts. F-Droid does the exact same thing . If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only). https://old.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/ceyzuz/the_fdroid_d...

Google is not available for Huawei phones, so self-hosted APK is a respect to their users
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