Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
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Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#2Neat idea, shame about all this misleading information though.
The website very strongly implies (1) the only way to predict words is by uploading every keystroke to central server,(2) every keyboard other than theirs do that and (3) the only way to get privacy is to download their product.
This is all complete lies of course. The prediction database is small enough that you can bundle it with app and run all prediction locally. The "upload each keystroke" part is completely optional -- some keyboards have no such functionality, and some keyboards require explicit opt-it via the easily findable checkbox.
It's a pity that the authors of such original ideas have to resort to lies to promote their product.
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#3I used to use a very similar looking/functioning keyboard way back on my Palm organiser and then on my Pocket PC. I don't recall the name of it now, but I got be being quite fast with it. It didn't have any autocomplete IIRC.
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#4For iOS i found this excellent T9 keyboard recently:
https://apps.apple.com/se/app/type-nine-t9-keyboard/id926008...
Also work without any network access, lookups are on-phone
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#5For the love of god... just show me how it works. Yes, based on a previous product. Yes, privacy is nice. Highly configurable. History of phone keyboards...
"Tap, or slide / swipe to type a letter." Slide/swipe how? "Swipe up or down on A to capitalize." So is A acting like a shift key? Or is that for every letter? How to capitalize the letters then that I somehow have to slide/swipe on?
Show me how it is working.
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#6WOW, a keyboard claims to be privacy-conscious, wasn't that dodgy enough?
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#7That's awesome
It would be nice to add more messagease layouts, multitouch 2-pane mode, more symbols, and layout customization features.
Lack of question mark in the standard layout drives me mad.
Also it would be good to have an option to disable animations, they are extremely distracting.
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#8WOW, a keyboard claims to be privacy-conscious, wasn't that dodgy enough?
What's dodgy here? This keyboard doesn't even require network permission, unlike almost all others.
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#9Neat idea, shame about all this misleading information though. The website very strongly implies (1) the only way to predict words is by uploading every keystroke to central server,(2) every keyboard other than theirs do that and (3) the only way to get privacy is to download their product. This is all complete lies of course. The prediction database is small enough that you can bundle it with app and run all predict…
A keyboard shouldn't have network permission at all.
Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs
#10Neat idea, shame about all this misleading information though. The website very strongly implies (1) the only way to predict words is by uploading every keystroke to central server,(2) every keyboard other than theirs do that and (3) the only way to get privacy is to download their product. This is all complete lies of course. The prediction database is small enough that you can bundle it with app and run all predict…
A keyboard shouldn't have network permission at all.
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