Gboard safe to use with network permission revoked?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38292767
for English i use heliboard. but i type in other languages also, and there are no practical choices in foss keyboards for those specific languages which also have the mainstream IME/key layout for my language (not qwerty).
fcitx provides some hope for the future but for now, it also doesn't have the IME/key layout for my language (only has qwerty). hopefully it can also have handwriting in the future somehow (if only via user-installed model/blob similar to heliboard glide typing).
anyway, I'm on Graphene OS. so i wondered if revoking network permission and setting gboard permanently to incognito (is permanent possible?) would suffice to cut off data collection?
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The problem with gboard is that is a google service, which is connected to google play services, which if you have, you have to let it connect to the internet.
So unless you have a firewall where you can filtered connection between the apps or domains connected to Gboard, it does not will change much
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Yes, but you won't have access to most of its features other than just typing. Since you're using Graphene and Google Play/Google Play Services are sandboxed cutting network permissions from Gboard should be enough to completely disable its phone to home.
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i'm trilingual and i use AnySoftKeyboard ☞ https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard or https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard
it supports 58 languages. Did you try ASK?
