Google keyboard gets a much needed update and I like it.

[mountainbikermark]

You can turn off synching:
(More screenshots?!? Why not!?)

Google has made it no secret that it reads what you type to "improve things".
But it supposedly anonymizes it.

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They've all always said that and I remember folks getting all up in arms about their personal information possibly being sent elsewhere is why they'd not use (fill in the blank) keyboard. One very popular one didn't , at the time, have a local way to turn off the sync. You'd have to email them and request it and didn't know if they ever turned your sync off. While I tended to agree with that premise I actuality just used the off feature, like I have done with this one. It's just, to use Swype as an example, they kept it to Swype data bases whereas Google is much closer to what in that movie was called Genisys than any individual apps that keep their stuff to themselves for their purposes. While I don't think Google was founded and expanded by someone from the future to enable the machines to take over I'm paranoid enough to be concerned with what they could do in the wrong hands and how freedom is being redefined. History has a way of repeating itself when left to mankind and add that into today's technology it could get really ugly for my kids.
Anyway I am really enjoying this keyboard, especially the accuracy of slides. It really reminds me of the old Swype beta days when the keyboard learned my style of slides and not just my word usage to suggest for the next one. Gotta get the current word right before suggesting the next one, which no other seems to do as well anymore.

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[Jonny Kansas]

See, I'd rather have Google host my data than some company I've never heard of until I downloaded their keyboard. Maybe that's just me.

As some have said, they get enough data on my based on my browsing, email, etc. While I know they use that data for advertising, they also use it to give me some pretty awesome personalized tools. I've long held the stance that, if they're gonna show me ads either way, I'd much rather they be ads for something I might already be in the market for than something I don't care about at all.

If syncing to their servers means less "setup" work to get my tablet keyboard to work as well for me as the one on my phone that I use all the time, so be it.

 

[Mustang02]

See, I'd rather have Google host my data than some company I've never heard of until I downloaded their keyboard. Maybe that's just me.

As some have said, they get enough data on my based on my browsing, email, etc. While I know they use that data for advertising, they also use it to give me some pretty awesome personalized tools. I've long held the stance that, if they're gonna show me ads either way, I'd much rather they be ads for something I might already be in the market for than something I don't care about at all.

If syncing to their servers means less "setup" work to get my tablet keyboard to work as well for me as the one on my phone that I use all the time, so be it.

 

[PereDroid]

I agree with Johnny too. People make too much of it. Google isn't going to take over the world based on the fact that they know I have an abbreviation - 'Stang - in my dictionary.
I think a big part of my nonchalance about Google reading my email or my text input might stem from the fact (not to bum every one out) that most of my family died when I was 19. I was pretty much completely alone in the world. I've learned the hard way what's truly important in this world. On the list of things we should worry about day to day, Google capturing some text from this law abiding citizen doesn't seem to rank very high at all. Not even top 100.
Google is NOT nefarious. Google just wants to sell you s***, and be better then Apple.
When I'm dead, I'm guessing I'm not going to care that Google knows what type of Pron I watch, or that I hung out at DF.Com when I should be working.
I have a very hard time believing an advertising giant, even one designing self driving cars, will some day be Skynet.

 

[Mustang02]

It's the same people who block out their license plates when putting pics of their cars online. Ugh how many people do you drive by on a daily basis?

 

[Jonny Kansas]

It's the same people who block out their license plates when putting pics of their cars online. Ugh how many people do you drive by on a daily basis?

Ok. I'm actually guilty of that. Idk if you can get my address from my plate number. I don't want everyone with internet access knowing where I live, even though the chances of any of them coming up here to find me are very slim.

 

[Mustang02]

Ok. I'm actually guilty of that. Idk if you can get my address from my plate number. I don't want everyone with internet access knowing where I live, even though the chances of any of them coming up here to find me are very slim.

there has to be a specific reason and a LEO/Lawyer/etc to get info from plates.

 

[mountainbikermark]

Ok. I'm actually guilty of that. Idk if you can get my address from my plate number. I don't want everyone with internet access knowing where I live, even though the chances of any of them coming up here to find me are very slim.

I never thought about why but I see TV shows blur plates out on vehicles all the time, such as the show Counting Cars as an example. I get why they do it to billboards, s shirts, etc (money) but never thought about why license plates .
I've been using this Google keyboard for almost a full day now and haven't had the itch to switch back to Swype at all. As far as copy and paste I use the recents key on the phone, the s pen to copy from a recently used app then paste it. It's not quite as fast as a dedicated gesture but it's working so far.

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[PereDroid]

Agreed. This is not freely available information. Nor is it even easy for a l33t hacker to get that info.
Someone would really have to be mad at you Johnny to travel that far to get you.
I'm thinking that ain't happening.

 

[PereDroid]

I never thought about why but I see TV shows blur plates out on vehicles all the time, such as the show Counting Cars as an example.

Because America. Some nimrod will find some excuse to sue over it. Better to just not take the chance..

 

[mountainbikermark]

Anyone notice a drop in battery life with this keyboard? Being a top user is not something I'm used to a keyboard being since early the Jelly Bean days.

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[Mustang02]

Nope.

 

[Jonny Kansas]

I've been using it so long, I don't even know. It came stock on my 6P and I'd already been using it so long on my Note 4 that I never even paid attention. Could it be because you've been playing around with it more than actual typing, or are you already back to your usual usage?

 

[Jonny Kansas]

It doesn't even show up on my battery stats.

 

[PereDroid]

Mine either

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