• somePotato@sh.itjust.works
    1752·
    10 months ago

    Google: mind if we put a keylogger on your browser for spellchecking?

    You: don’t

    Google: OK, we won’t use the keylogger data for spellchecking

  • ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de
    411·
    10 months ago

    I use a Windows PC for work with Chrome because we are on G suite and it’s just easier that way. I am constantly annoyed by how terrible the spellcheck is within chrome. It did not used to be this bad. It highlights “thier” as misspelled but only suggests thief theirs and shier. Yeah… ok google. Expect me to believe that when AI is in every thing. I can run a LLM on same the laptop OFFLINE. Word 93 knew to autocorrect to their with no internet and no ai. Of course you get frustrated, go to settings and see this stupid little toggle. Fucking Google already… it will only get worse. They’re already key-logging you they just want to pay out less on a future class action settlement. Like the one they just settled for tracking user data during incognito sessions. God damned Google. Oh sorry, I mean aLpHaBeT. You guys like letters now do ya Google? Well here are my faves. F and U !

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’ve always wondered how that works. Are their databases just too large and it fucks up returns or is there someone smart out there purposely returning bad searches constantly to ruin their spell check. Is their dev inept? Lol.

      Gboard was my go to for ages but finding a different keyboard on mobile has not been fun for off brand phones.

      • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        Sadly, the best alternative to GBoard on Android is Simple Keyboard, cause the spell check and word prediction on the other alternatives is more annoying than helpful, so it’s better to use an app that literally just writes what you type.

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Thanks for the recommendation.

          Foenthose wonderinf thisnid what Intyped without autocorrrect doing what I normally wpild. Simple Keyboard does not have an autocorrevt at all.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    391·
    10 months ago

    using chrome and expecting a little checkbox to stop them from tracking you.

    theres no reason you shouldnt be using firefox if you are savvy enough to be on lemmy.

      • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        Zealotry convinced me to go vegan. After a few months on r/vegancirclejerk listening to them make fun of carnist rationalisations, I realised I really didn’t have an excuse for eating meat.

          • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            I expect you not to pay people to kill innocents, regardless of the intelligence of the victim, because I do not believe in fascist arguments that the less capable are less deserving of decent treatment.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        55·
        10 months ago

        something closer to zealotry would be using a browser from a data-mining corp and expecting privacy.

        and not having privacy and expecting democracy not to die slowly.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
            31·
            10 months ago

            except thats exactly most peoples atitudes when they complain about it.

            and yes, erosion of privacy is leading to erosion of democracy in many ways, thats pretty well estabilished.

  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    25·
    10 months ago

    It’s so fucking annoying how I can’t turn grammar check off in google docs on my phone. I’m not sure how bad grammar check is if you write in English, but in Finnish it’s such a clusterfuck because it always tries to ‘correct’ compound words and doesn’t understand declension.

    • addie@feddit.uk
      6·
      10 months ago

      It’s tolerable if you’re writing something quite prescribed; business reports, perhaps. It’s too limited and obsessed with tedious bullshit if you’re writing prose, say. It wouldn’t do to express yourself.

  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
    232·
    10 months ago

    Jokes on you humanity, hitting ‘no’ is just another data point that they can use to compare you to millions of other people and use the aggregate data to predict what you’re probably going to do anyway.

  • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    Not super exciting story, but this just happened like 10mins ago. I was looking for Radon Mitigiation service near me and made a typo and spelled Radon as “Rason”, it autocorrected to “Ramen”.

  • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 months ago

    Got something similar on my fire stick the other day. It said it could help me get back to the shows I love watching faster if I turn on the new feature that shares all the data from the different apps directly with Amazon.

    The only options were yes and ask later. I had to go to settings to find and turn it off.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 months ago

    What is ‘advanced spell check’ anyway? A double red line goes under the words you really spell the wrong way?

  • DrPop@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    Google- seeing as your response was in a mirror we decided to turn on this feature. Deactivation will require you to call the help desk.

  • Remoed@lemmings.world
    56·
    10 months ago

    Anyone know where to turn this on? I might want this. My spelling is so bad I often have to do this anyway.