FWIW, this isn't the Gboard (Google's official keyboard). HTC ships TouchPal's keyboard. It looks like TouchPal pushed an update through the Play Store that (maybe accidentally) ignored whatever licensing system was in place for HTC devices.
It's not the Gboard, but if the phone ships with it as the default, it's definitely the standard keyboard for that phone.
GBoard is a brand name of Google's keyboard. The title is thus misleading - its equivalent to saying "Apple is showing ads in iOS keyboard" when actually a 3rd party keyboard does it.
Were you able to fully understand what the comment meant from the link provided? I wasn't. It's helpful to the reader to have context when a comment is in response to another.
Why even link to a comment in the first place? The comment in question seems to be talking about iOS, which isn't at all relevant to the article being discussed.
The link goes to an unrelated comment thread about iOS keyboard password entry - should this be linked to the root of the thread instead?
Very glad to see this isn't Gboard as it's what I use on my S5, but dear god, this has got to be crossing the line, right? Keyboards, as commented, are the Holy Grail for data mining.
If one more thing starts popping up ads on my phone, I will go back to a Nokia.