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The only app I can't live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard's swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I'd like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I've heard, it sends all typing data to Google's server. If you ask me, that's a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

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[–] avidseeker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Network permission? How did you disable network access?

[–] moitoi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Settings -> Apps -> All Apps -> Gboard -> Permission -> Network -> Don't allow

[–] wagoner@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Network isn't listed as a permission used or requested or denied to this app. Using Samsung S22.

[–] stylist_trend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And even then, that would still probably be a no-go because OP wants to use gifs

[–] LFR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a custom rom thing, when you never use stock roms you tend to forget what's stock and what's not.

Very annyoing that stock android doesn't have this feature.

[–] MMNT@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I use Netguard and block apps with that.

[–] moitoi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using exclusively custom roms for years now.

My bad

[–] InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Using grapheneOS so from permissions. Not sure if possible without any fake VPN filtering app on stock