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I live in China and this software is cancerous not just in the encryption failure, it also nestles into a computer like a trojan. Creates 2 fallback installations and will reinstall itself after removal if you reboot in between, unless you get rid of all 3 installations at once, where they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the uninstall button (triple confirmation, swapping the confirm/cancel buttons and button background colors, etc.).

It's a nasty piece of crap that come preloaded on any phone (android, at least) and Windows-PC here.

As if other keyboard apps are any different, I don't think Microsoft bought SwiftKey just for fun?!

Same with Microsoft keyboard and almost every other keyboard app.

So use Fcitx 5 Android instead. It's a open source IME application without requesting any permission except Notification, especially without network permission.

https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android

Didn't swiftpad or whatever its called send every key pressed to Microsoft?

Not a China shill. China is horrible. Microsoft less so as they don't commit genocide in slow motion. But still, I think this sort of thing is more common than we think.

Use FOSS.

The most popular Western OS (and probably the other commercial OSs too) sends every key typed back to base. Plus every website visited. Plus every document amended.

Tencent began investing on Reddit several years back.

And gboard or SwiftKey don't?

Never use a closed source keyboard app. It can read what you send for messages, websites you go to, search engine queries.