Most PRIVATE Keyboard Apps!
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- How private is your phone keyboard?
Smartphones allow us to intimately communicate, do sensitive work, and access the world around us by tapping on a screen: The gateway to this world is the keyboard. It’s where we type our searches, our credit card details, our passwords. You'd better hope the keyboard you're using is private, and not sending off your keystrokes somewhere else.
In this video we dive into keyboard privacy, and dive into some of the most private and least private keyboard options.
00:00 Intro
01:10 Virtual Keyboards Explained
02:21 Third-Party Keyboards
03:05 How to Tell if a Keyboard App is Safe
06:26 These Keyboards Leak Your Data!
08:12 Apple’s iOS Keyboard
11:04 Google’s GBoard
12:51 MORE PRIVATE OPTIONS
13:02 Graphene OS
14:22 AnySoftKeyboard
14:50 OpenBoard
15:18 FlorisBoard
15:30 SimpleKeyboard
16:00 Fleksy
16:42 Stay Vigilant
18:00 YES IT'S OK THAT I PRONOUNCE DATA THIS WAY
A third-party keyboard app isn’t just something you should add to your phone because it offers some cool features. It’s a critical decision that can undermine the privacy of your entire device. Choose wisely.
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I think encrypted messenger apps should have their own built in keyboard to avoid keyloggers, analytics etc. that’s the one thing I’ve always worried about when using signal etc .
No, its bloat
they can suggest a privacy keyboard
Overall, the best privacy-oriented channel I've ever seen.
Thank you!
And what a fascinating woman! Clever and beautiful!
Ciao 👋🏻 from Italy 🇮🇹
Rob Braxman is a good channel as well.
All Things Secured
Is good as well imo.
Techlore is a good one too, as is Wolfgang's Channel.
Your Awesome Aussie Accent is awesome, Naomi (not that you need anyone to say it). Keep on keeping on!!! I love this channel and your work is invaluable for everyone. Thank you for everything, you're the best!!!!!
I've been searching for a video on this for so long I'm convinced youtube supresses this topic. Thank you! Also, Gboard definitely shares data with other apps on your phone.
LoL, just remember when addressing the SNG android, his name is Data (day ta) not data (dat ta). When the Dr mispronounced it and he checked her she said "dat-ta, dayta, what's difference?" Data replied "One is my name, the other isn't."
Naomi, thanks for all you do! You're one fine tomato in my book!😊
we love u Naomi !! need more ppl to stand for privacy. its so ridiculous how many people willingly give up their RIGHT to privacy
Pefect time for counter intelligence
I am beyond irritated. I’ve been involved with Information Technology since before and during the release of standard cell phones, BlackBerry, iPhone, other smartphones as well as satellite phones and GPS receivers. Privacy has gotten worse and worse year after year. So tired of hearing about hacks and breaches. Thanks for sharing NB.
This was a very informative video. There is one more thing I would like to have here which is the clipboard function inside the keyboard. Some of them are even keeping a history of it by default and I believe a lot of people, after coping something sensitive, say password, probably forget to erase it afterwards. While the data is kept locally and not sent anywhere, it would be safe but others using the same device can see all the data that we had copied and pasted which is not good for our privacy. BTY, your pronunciations are perfectly fine as long as people can understand what you're trying to communicate.
More to the point, the clipboard is by design shared between apps. All it would then take would be one malicious app to dump that data...
I actually have my clipboard turned off, and yet, Avast! will still delete a random amount stored into it... Wild!
Anecdote:
Yesterday I had a meeting with a city official. I borrowed her laptop to fill in a form and I copy pasted something from the net and instead of me getting the text I needed I got "privacy protected" information from the client she had before me.
It's not a phone as you describe but even people who handle confidential information does not know how to keep that information secret. The clipboard is dangerous for private information what ever the platform.
EDIT: My password manager on my PC erases the clipboard after a set amount of time. I do hope password managers does that/can do that to on Android.
Your videos are so top notch and thorough! Just amazing!
Thank you for covering yet another important topic! Personally, I use a forked version of Openboard with swipe typing built in. Unfortunately though, AnySoft as well as Openboard lack behind massively in terms of updates or general development. People who can code should really pick up on these pieces of crucial software.
What does forked mean?
@@thenuthing8258 It means taking existing code (e.g. an app) to modify, enhance, alter it in any way or form. It could be just adding a missing feature or building something new on top of all of that.
It generally means taking someone else's codebase and making their own version
They took the codebase and created a variant of it
Yay for GrapheneOS... but... not having a row for numbers instantly accessible is soooo painful!
I would like to switch FOSS rom ,but i still need thai bank app on google play.😢
keyboard apps often have the option to add a row of numbers.
@@WickedMuis graphene stock does not
what else is painful is that GrapheneOS is..
1. Can only work on specific phones (ie, not mine)
2. The owner/main dev is apparently a huge jerk.
I hope that if I use ASK or something, that I can get the number row and arrow keys. ARROW KEYS ARE MY FRIEND! But right now I use swiftkey and have for some time, largely because it has those two things. I guess Microsoft knows my most inner keyboarded secrets. Gross.
Thank you once again for highlighting a topic I hadn't thought about. You really are brilliant Naomi. PS I love your accent and we all say things differently and none of us are wrong on our pronunciation. Carry on being you, as I said, you're brilliant. Sending you love from the UK.
You're doing a great public service, thank you 👍
Great Review Thanks Naomi ❤
Love your videos Naomi!! Please do one about this...
Sony just updated their privacy agreement for my Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones. They basically force you to agree to hand over a lot of private data or you cannot use their app that controls the functionality of the headphones. It would be awesome if you would do a video on this "agreed" invasion of privacy. They tell you what info they scrape up and that they basically track your location, what you listen to, how long etc. They also share your data with their partners. Who would have thought you could be tracked through your headphones!!
From the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
so happy to see simple keyboard in the list
Thanks MS Naomi I loved open source keyboard apps and i using Floris keyboard at the moment good luck with your work
This was a very informative and eye opening for me. I never gave a thought to keyboards and what they might be doing..its so innocuous!!
I'm writing with Florisboard downloaded after I watched your video. Thanks a lot for this wonderful video.
You pronounce data the way you do, I assume, because you are from New Zealand. Nothing wrong with that. The information you give is so good, I do not care how you pronounce data so long as we understand what you mean. 😀
I also wish my own UA-cam channel was as good as yours.
Yeah, at first I found it a bit strange, but the way I look at things is the differences that make us interesting. I wish more thought like that.
I'm trying to be more private, I'm trying to degoogle, hardest for me to let go will be Google Drive and mail, I also just their office apps. I do encrypt sensitive files with Vera Crypt first. I am now using Firefox with Bitwarden as password manager and I use Linux Mint as my desktop for most things.
It's there a good online office that isn't Google or Microsoft?
Thanks Naomi for the great insight!
Very informative. love your contents,Naomi
Your accent is diferent than mine but, i like it so much hahaha you have a beautiful voice and i love hearing it. Thanks for your work.
Oh Naomi 😂 you having to explain to other people that you have a different accent is just crazy. Why do they think you have to speak like the people from the movies. 😂
I like your accent and the way you pronounce data. Not how I say it but its pleasant imo. Thanks for this video. I may try a different keyboard but I hate having to reenter passwords and all that. Currently I use Gboard because it was installed on my phone.
Hahaha.. as a fellow Aussie, your accent and pronunciation is perfect!!
But ngl, before you mentioned "data", I thought the "all your questions" was going to be about your hair! 😅
Amazing vid. Thanks!
GrapheneOS is a great mobile phone OS but is not compatible with the majority of smartphones.
Or apps for that matter, you won't be using any banking apps which also eliminates the option of tap-to-pay using your phone. It's a shame.
@@Nurr0the fix is literally on the graphene site
Regarding the last part, about the pronunciation of "DATA".
Here is the explanation for some who don't know:
UK and all its colonies (like Australia, India, HongKong, Canada, New Zealand, etc.) pronounced the word Data as "da-ta".
While the US and its colonies (like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and my country Philippines) pronounced it as "dey-ta".
Also, in the spelling department: like enrollment (UK) vs enrolment (US), coloniser (UK) vs colonizer (US), metre (UK) vs. meter (US), follows the same idea as the pronunciation.
Allegedly, the reason why the difference is because of the man named Noah Webster. He changed how the words were spelled (and pronounced) to make the American version different from the British as a way of showing cultural independence from its mother country or its colonizer.
You're amazing, you DATA girl 😁🥰 excellent content and suggestions as always! 😎🙏
Thank you Naomi!
LOL I am French. So to me it's dat ting dair instead of that thing there. I can't believe people feel like they have to correct your lovely accent!
I have a pixel 6a on Android 14. At least at the moment, almost all the keyboards you mentioned aren't compatible with it yet.
I had given GrapheneOS a try, but ran into issues with LastPass, and reverted to stock Android 13. I may give them a whirl again once they have Android 14 ported.
Love the accent BTW!
Thanks for this great reporting!
Never thought of the keyboard (that I am now on :p ). Wonderful video,as usual; thank you! :)
I've been using openboard on most of my devices from past 2 years and it does what it neees to do, nothing more, nothing less
Thanks for the info, I hadn't realized the keyboard app had quite that much power, yikes.
I knew it was dodgy territory but yeah, very yikes.
I switched to Simple's keyboard earlier this month and can say its been nice, I sorta miss the auto-correct but my lazy spelling has improved atleast lol
Just wondering if you have advice on NFC tag/card writters? I'm looking at basic automation tools to compensate for poor memory and concentraition but this also seems to be some dodgy territory from my own research so far.
Anyway, thanks for all the info, looking forward to more of the car series
Girl, I love the way you pronounce words! ❤❤❤
The fact that people complain that other peoples' accent is "wrong" baffles me. How are they this narrow minded?
Stay awesome Naomi and team, this channel is fantastic!
Great information! Blocking internet access to mainstream keyboards would make them private?
Your Aussie accent is what made me subscribe in the first place.
Thanks for subscribing!
This was completely new to me - shocking!
The vary thing I've been looking at. Also like the voice to text system, futo is the only one I'm familiar with so far that is open source locally hosted
Wha... Your pronunciation is perfect. As is your presentation you just just offered.
Excellent content, highly informative, invaluable & Absolutely ❤ the accent on "data" & elsewhere too. So beautiful. 🙂🙃😍😊😉
Thank you for the tip on Simple Keyboard - it's pretty much what I've been looking for. I hate all the extra nonsense that Google has been adding to Gboard. Coupled with the privacy insight, I'm even happier with the change. Looking to migrate to GrapheneOS or /e/ at some point down the line, I think. I'm really tired of the gratuitous UI changes all the time, never mind how intrusive stock Android (PIxel) has become.
I've been looking for a keyboard for CalyxOS that supports gesture typing for a while. Thanks for the suggestions!
Hey!
Do you have any privacy focused news apps?
I loved the audiobook app "AntennaPod" and it's great!
Maybe there are similar news apps?
Have no problem with your dialect. Shouldn't effect your videos. Great information once again. I also get pulled up on some of my pronunciations but it doesn't worry me, they get the gist of things. You do well, keep it up.
your accent is fine. Great vid as always.
OK your my favorite You Tube channel. 😃😃!!!. TY
Thanks Naomi.
Thanks Ron!
I love your accent! It's quite charming.
I love your pronunciation!
I personally have a mixed accent, i sometime pronounce the same way you do and sometimes in a different way. It is actually funny that you had to explain this 😂. Furthermore, is it possible to investigate Samsung phones, they take a huge percent of market share and Samsung does advertise some of it's features such as Knox and Samsung Wallet to be private. However, we can't know for sure.
I know this video is old, but FUTO is working on a privacy focused keyboard with voice typing. It is still in alpha but it looks promising and I am keeping an eye on it ^ ^
Keep up the great work and content Naomi. 😊 Ain't nothing wrong with your accent or pronunciation 🇦🇺😉
I say data like you do. I actually use both "day-tah" and "dah-tah" 😊 no worries from here. I welcome your lovely accent! 🎉
2 things, you seem to talk about grapheneos a lot in your videos. Do you run this on your phone as a daily driver?
The second is you can say words any way you want. Not all of us can say words like everyone else. It's part of our charm!
yes graphene is my daily driver because it's the most private
+1 for your 'data', & as for your accent, What accent? You sound pretty normal to me. It's always refreshing to hear the Aussie 'twang' on the interwebs. ty
Thank you again for a great video! Data or data, who cares? English is my second language and I understand perfectly, isn’t that the point? 😊
RE closed source... "Dear LLM; how would you label these decompiled variables in a way that prioritises minimal cognition effort??"
Thanks keep up
Now you know one method Security Services were using, together with info from the keyboard cache file!
God damn! I was going to contact you especially about the fact that even if we have a fully secure setup, de-googled phone, signal and what not, we still have the issue of the keyboard logging everything! and BAM, here is your video :) Niiiccceeee
Thanks for watching!
I just wanted to ask, for full transparency, what your relationship with the developers of GrapheneOS is? I'm new to the channel and you often talk about alternatives but not that I've seen when it comes to alternatives to Android. And you offer a service to assist the switch to GrapheneOS.
I love you Naomi!
While default gboard is great for accurate typing.. I use open-source keyboard app... you can notice while using the keyboard that is not as 'accurate' when you are typing.. This is because google keyboard is learning your style of typing and common words.. so even if you press 'T' by mistake it would actually press 'R' which is what you've wanted since it's tracking your habits..
I use Simple Keyboard and all advanced settings are turned off.. Takes a bit of re-learning to type correctly.. but I believe it's worth it
This is a great video. Quick question. By analytics sharing you mean the thing when you first setup the iphone (or anything else) that asks you to share anonymous information to help improve the services/device. I always turn that off, and I never use anything.
NBTV, leaving no stone unturned in the privacy arena! Now please excuse me, Im off to download and install the "daadaa" keyboard she recommended. ;) Nice talk, Naomi ❣
I love the way you pronounce dance and chance. It's very classy, which I'm sure you pronounce as, "clossee" :-)
Thank you
Hey @NaomiBrockwellTV i didn't find privacy keyboard that support thai.could you recommend me which is?
Geez can't trust anything on the phone not email, browser, keyboard, sim card and all the fixes sound like a pain in the ass 😂
I love my daily dose of Tech related blackpills ☠️
not a blackpill! A whitepill! I'm here to tell you there are solutions and you can make more informed choices that will improve your life 💪
I have a Samsung android with built in Samsung keyboard. I turned off permissions. Is this ok or should I install a 3rd party one that you mentioned?
I love your accent! ❤
You are a doll😍
Might be paranoia but I dont do banking on my mobile, I did recently sign for internet whilst onboard a BA flight, no encryption either.
Would have like to See/Hear something about Typewise, known to be good aswell.
Naomi is greatness.
LOL at the end 😂😂😂
That must be annoying!
your data pronouncing seems correct)))
you forgot to mention Hacker's Keyboard, it's another great option (though it has stopped recieving major updates for quite awhile)
I love Hacker's Keyboard. It's the only one I've found that gives you functional arrow keys!
@@lihtan this ^
You never mentioned which phones I can put Graphene on. Can I put it on any android phone???? Would be nice to know which phones.
At least for my language, Openboard is absolutely useless. Almost always registers the wrong keypresses and auto corrects to wildly different works. Love the videos and keep up the important work!
Been here many times 😅
Can't find a good foss keyboard that I like and have the features.
Maybe I could block its access to the internet via DNS
Part of the reason this channel didn't have 1 million subscribers is because of UA-cam
Thanks, as always, for your smart content. People who critique your pronunciation of "data" need to get a life.
Ur the best naomi
Typewise is private, maybe one to reccomend. Does cost €9.99 a year though.
I have SwiftKey on my android supposed to be encrypted but I see it copying my text and have trouble typing on utube sometimes the whole key board fills with random letters till it works
Isn't GrapheneOS problematic due to the project's maintainer?
I learned UK English (I am from NL), so data and dance are pronounced correctly, according to me. I think color is spelled ugly, I think colour gives the word more "colour". ;-)
I'm from the UK too and I pronounce it "day-tuh"
Agreed!
Thanks god someone speaks about that, I remember long time ago keyloggers on PCs were a big deal, but you had to inject a payload, nowadays with virtual keyboards it's so much easier, you just need to mask a keylogger as keyboard and push to the store... And ppl don't even think that they're installing bullshit on their devices, that in last decades became essential like air and water, keeping all personal details and do the most sensitive work and send most intimate data and they don't even know about any aspect of the safety needed to perform certain actions
According to the video almost anything can act as a keylogger and it looks like we (in general) don't care anymore. And because of this general carelessness we actually don't manage to have a healthy business environment which will manage to get profit from building a keyboard without being a keylogger. Therefore the problem stands in the way how the incentives are aligned.
I used a Firewall and disabled any data connections to it like WiFi/Cellular/Bluetooth.
Naomi is Australian which is why she talks funny.
Most Americans don't pronounce Australian properly. We say it with 3 syllables, they use 4.
We say 'Aus trail yin ' , they say Aus trail e an'
She has a very impressing background besides computers. WA = Western Australian
Naomi has a degree in Acting (Curtin), Classical Music (WA Academy of Performing Arts), a Certificate I in Musical Theatre (WAAPA). She also studied musical theater at the WA Academy of Dance and Drama, and opera at Mannes Classical Music Conservatoire in New York. She has studied Improv Theater at Second City in Toronto and The Pit in New York.
Naomi speaks English, French, German, Italian, and basic Russian. She plays piano, guitar, drums, percussion, recorder, and ukulele, and has performed in orchestras, jazz bands, concert bands, and acoustically throughout Australia. She is a state gold medal-winning Irish Dancer, and is highly trained in many other forms of dance. [7]
Re the last part - I hear you, I pronounce data the same way as you and get people telling me "its day-ta"
Can use net guard and turn off boards and swiftness access to the internet