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The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Do people generally try to circumvent it? Are they too scared to uninstall it? Or do they just not care?

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Worse. They think it's useful.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Why? Useful for safety and security of the society?

    Edit: Why downvotes? I'm trying to put myself in their shoes, it's not how I view it lol

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Comes with a built in translator and spell checker, and since access to Google translate is blocked, that's often the only alternative.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Lol “I love this tool that they made, because they blocked me from Google translate.”

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Nah. They don't know Google translate. Or Google, for that matter. They know what they are supposed to know.

    Of course some people know better, and those are the ones who will eventually get around the block - finding and installing a VPN is not rocket science, not even here. But if you keep 98% of the population contained, the rest won't reach critical mass.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I thought we are talking about a keyboard app?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It was a “what about” analogy. It compares a app that steals data without the users consent and the other one is the keyboard app. Both seem to be wanted by consumers despite the steeling parts.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah but a social media platform has completely different qualities. Therefore the reasons for people how and why they use them will be completely different. Also the keyboard app is forced on the phones by the state while the use of social media platforms is optional. Just too many different factors at play here imo.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Some weird downvotes, and I want to know too. Why does a keyboard app mean anything to anyone? The keyboards included on iOS and latest Android versions are great.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Don't know about this keyboard or Chinese, but a language specific feature might be one of the reason.

    I use SwiftKey and I love how it supports multilingual autocorrect and prediction for Indonesian and English without needing to switch between keyboard language.

    iOS built in keyboard supports multilingual typing for some languages, but not Indonesian.

    I assume people love it also because some specific feature that doesn't exist in the stock keyboard.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    My guess is that it might either be more accurate in predictions or some additional convenience factors that makes typing this logographic language much easier and faster lol.

    Or people are also simply used to it since it's everywhere.

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