how bad are text expanders? (textpand)
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ive been using expandroid, but sadly it stoped working for the stuff i most need it for.
now i found texpandapp(.)com. its really nice cuz it works my browser and note taking app.
most home calling can be stopped via dns blocking i guess (?), but it still has those questionable permissions:
- view network connections
- use fingerprint hardware
- run foreground service with the type "dataSync" 🥱
- run at startup
-ask to ignore battery optimizations - have full network access
- prevent phone from sleeping
- Advertising ID Permission
- run foreground service
- Google Play billing service
- Play Install Referrer API
how bad is all of that? keylogger-level bad?
(cannot block all internet access, bad phone and the vpn slot is occupied; but i could use split tunneling and block it all if nessecary)
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ive been using expandroid, but sadly it stoped working for the stuff i most need it for.
now i found texpandapp(.)com. its really nice cuz it works my browser and note taking app.
most home calling can be stopped via dns blocking i guess (?), but it still has those questionable permissions:
- view network connections
- use fingerprint hardware
- run foreground service with the type "dataSync" 🥱
- run at startup
-ask to ignore battery optimizations - have full network access
- prevent phone from sleeping
- Advertising ID Permission
- run foreground service
- Google Play billing service
- Play Install Referrer API
how bad is all of that? keylogger-level bad?
(cannot block all internet access, bad phone and the vpn slot is occupied; but i could use split tunneling and block it all if nessecary)
These applications have to read everything you type to be able to see if the expansion trigger is being used. They are quite literally keyloggers.
They may be nice, but you're essentially letting the application read everything you type. Including passwords, social security numbers, anything...
Any type of network access here is unacceptable.
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These applications have to read everything you type to be able to see if the expansion trigger is being used. They are quite literally keyloggers.
They may be nice, but you're essentially letting the application read everything you type. Including passwords, social security numbers, anything...
Any type of network access here is unacceptable.
thanks, kinda thought so, gonna use netguard when using it, more important than the vpn
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ive been using expandroid, but sadly it stoped working for the stuff i most need it for.
now i found texpandapp(.)com. its really nice cuz it works my browser and note taking app.
most home calling can be stopped via dns blocking i guess (?), but it still has those questionable permissions:
- view network connections
- use fingerprint hardware
- run foreground service with the type "dataSync" 🥱
- run at startup
-ask to ignore battery optimizations - have full network access
- prevent phone from sleeping
- Advertising ID Permission
- run foreground service
- Google Play billing service
- Play Install Referrer API
how bad is all of that? keylogger-level bad?
(cannot block all internet access, bad phone and the vpn slot is occupied; but i could use split tunneling and block it all if nessecary)
I know you're probably referring to mobile apps. However, I only use a text expander on Desktop, where I can recommend espanso. It's FOSS and doesn't connect anywhere (unless you tell it to). I wouldn't trust a non-open app that can read everything I type.
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thanks, kinda thought so, gonna use netguard when using it, more important than the vpn
Rethink is better than NetGuard.
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ive been using expandroid, but sadly it stoped working for the stuff i most need it for.
now i found texpandapp(.)com. its really nice cuz it works my browser and note taking app.
most home calling can be stopped via dns blocking i guess (?), but it still has those questionable permissions:
- view network connections
- use fingerprint hardware
- run foreground service with the type "dataSync" 🥱
- run at startup
-ask to ignore battery optimizations - have full network access
- prevent phone from sleeping
- Advertising ID Permission
- run foreground service
- Google Play billing service
- Play Install Referrer API
how bad is all of that? keylogger-level bad?
(cannot block all internet access, bad phone and the vpn slot is occupied; but i could use split tunneling and block it all if nessecary)
Why do you use a separate Android app with all of those hostile permissions instead of the built-in personal dictionary and its shortcuts? I have thousands of shorthand lines in Android's personal dictionary, like
wdyl=what do you like(type the first part and the second part appears in the autocorrect pane for you to touch if you want). - view network connections
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I know you're probably referring to mobile apps. However, I only use a text expander on Desktop, where I can recommend espanso. It's FOSS and doesn't connect anywhere (unless you tell it to). I wouldn't trust a non-open app that can read everything I type.
Ha, I just made [email protected] recently!
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Why do you use a separate Android app with all of those hostile permissions instead of the built-in personal dictionary and its shortcuts? I have thousands of shorthand lines in Android's personal dictionary, like
wdyl=what do you like(type the first part and the second part appears in the autocorrect pane for you to touch if you want).i dont seem to have that function. anyway cannot rly see the harm with that app and the vpn block solution.
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i dont seem to have that function. anyway cannot rly see the harm with that app and the vpn block solution.
Your Android device doesn't have a personal dictionary section in the Language & Input page? What phone do you have?
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