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Yes, it is crazy. For these cases we shouldn't be using SaaS at all. Installed applications can still be useful, I guess.
Anything you can recommend that integrates with a browser but runs locally and check grammar and spelling mistakes?
I feel like the first thing we should talk about is how this is effectively a keylogger, similar to Windows 10's inking and typing setting, albeit with likely poorer security. Collecting everything you type into a web browser (or MS Office) and sending it to them seems like a really bad idea.
Aren't all password managers keyloggers too?
This is outrageous.
> Grammarly had fixed the issue and released an update to the Chrome Web Store within a few hours, a really impressive response time.
Oh my god. Impressive is your insane lack of competence and responsability.
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Yes. Google offers ADMX templates for controlling Chrome which can be deployed through group policy. It includes an extension blacklist, which accepts wildcards. In my case, I put a * in there. It also has an extension whitelist, and a list of "force-installed apps and extensions". https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187202?hl=en This is one place where Google actually did really do their homework, IMHO.
Is something comparable available for Firefox?
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One of the reasons I started writing my own editor.
Interesting, how is the progress going so far? I think there is a lot of demand out there for a certain type of editor.
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Gotta get that HN karma tho
You are getting down votes because HN has a policy that the HN Title should match the Title on the link to prevent editorializing in almost all cases. This prevents users from creating click bait headlines to get that karma tho , the majority of the time. Cases where the actual title is the click bait like this one, are the unintended consequence of that policy.
I nearly missed this bit at the bottom: > Grammarly had fixed the issue and released an update to the Chrome Web Store within a few hours, a really impressive response time. Nice to see a company take this kind of thing appropriately seriously (although of course it should never have happened in the first place).
It seems like it would be more fair for the headline to use the past tense.
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Gotta get that HN karma tho
You are getting down votes because HN has a policy that the HN Title should match the Title on the link to prevent editorializing in almost all cases. This prevents users from creating click bait headlines to get that karma tho , the majority of the time. Cases where the actual title is the click bait like this one, are the unintended consequence of that policy.
I feel like the first thing we should talk about is how this is effectively a keylogger, similar to Windows 10's inking and typing setting, albeit with likely poorer security. Collecting everything you type into a web browser (or MS Office) and sending it to them seems like a really bad idea.
Same as Google/Firefox autocomplete and history, or keyboard spell checker, or email autocomplete and spell checker, etc.
So linux and android are also in the boat of having apps that make your life easier, also need security enforced.
Just wanted to say, its not a Windows only issue, OSX, iphone, android, they are all going to be affected to simular issues.
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Yes, it is crazy. For these cases we shouldn't be using SaaS at all. Installed applications can still be useful, I guess.
Anything you can recommend that integrates with a browser but runs locally and check grammar and spelling mistakes?