This is news? I would have been extremely surprised if it wasnt. This is normal for China, the CCP is eavesdropping on everything
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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In fact it's hard to find open source Chinese input methods that work well enough, the only ones I know of are Trime and Fcitx5_for_android.
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Same with Microsoft keyboard and almost every other keyboard app.
Naomi Wu has literally been talking about pwnd Chinese IMEs for years in her sidechannel critiques of Signal.
Tencent began investing on Reddit several years back.
Tencent owns sizeable pieces (and outright owns) of more companies than you can imagine.
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Just gonna plug FlorisBoard here. A bit barebones for now but at least it respects your privacy.
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It's to help improve the user experience right? ...right?
FOSS keyboards for Android:
Neither of which supports Chinese, so that's useless for any actual users of Sogou.
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