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People being okay with US tech-based keyboard apps effectively being keyloggers, and hoovering up every single thing they type into their phones. Its one of the reasons I made Thumb-Key.
Keyloggers on desktop computers : ๐ฆ
Keyloggers on phones : ๐
Ashamed to admit it took me way too long to realize smart phone keyboards were just built in keyloggers. I switched to OpenBoard a while back but phones in general are just built from the ground up to be a privacy nightmare.