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No "cloud-enabled" app without snarky comments about data sharing. Sigh. I personally like the dictionary sync across devices. Especially because I use SwiftKey for German which always suffers from terrible dictionary coverage. But what stops you from disabling all online features?

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The question is: once online feature is disabled, can you really be sure no information about you is shared beyond your back?

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From what I gather they're not open source: I would be happier to see them go FOSS than free.

If you have App Ops you can prevent any app from phoning home, or just gathering sensitive data in the first place (although you can't stop a keyboard from storing your keystrokes).

That's a valid concern, though. Why should one invest their time in firewalling their phone or reverse engineering app, when cloud sync could be put into a separate package?

That's simply a question of demand and resources required. This is certainly not a trivial task that requires engineers building it. If more people would voice these concerns it probably something Swiftkey would consider.

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