Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck.

Ok, I get that surveillance is good for predictions. Put another way, predictions are tough without collecting everything everyone types. Is there a best-of-both-worlds keyboard out there? I’d be patient enough to give it some time to learn how I type and get better.

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I assume you must’ve tried openboard. What issues did you have with it? The predictions have been more than satisfactory in my experience.

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Doesn’t seem to have swipe typing, which is important for me. Otherwise it’s great.

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ahh, yeah swipe typing is really tough to inplement well without data collection. i used to use it a lot back before i completely degoogled and id be lying if i said i didnt miss it. i honestly just couldn’t find any foss keyboards at all that had swipe typing!

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There’s a fork that supports it, though it looks like it has become inactive, if you care about that https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard

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I have OpenBoard too and the predictions suck for me. What do you do that makes it not suck for you?

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I use openboard and it does exactly what I want it to do: it displays characters I can type out myself. I don’t use swipe typing, predictions or autocorrect as those never work well enough, usually exclusively giving shit suggestions or corrections. I also use three languages daily, so I’d have to constantly switch the keyboard language, if I had autocorrect/predictions/swipe turned on.

I do understand that my use case is not the norm, but I still wanted to give my two cents.

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Ah, okay, yeah if you don’t use it I don’t see it acting up on you. Lol.

What do you do that requires 3 languages? I’m genuinely curious.

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Use it for a while.

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I’ve been using it for like a couple years now. Lol.

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I just installed it. I’ll give it a shot. Seems like something I probably tried years ago and decided I didn’t like it.

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