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I wanted to install it to give it a try, but in the playstore I saw the application roughly translated is "susceptible to share my approximative location with other enterprises or organization".

I must ask, what could the reason(s) for a keyboard have access to a location ?

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I’ve always thought about copying other useful apps that are clearly trying to collect data or make you pay for stupid IAP, and then publishing and maintaining it through donations. The apps would all be free in the various offical stores.

The delta between thinking about it and doing it is why there’s so many solid one-and-done apps that don’t exist.

I strongly encourage people to do it, especially if they’re not going to try to cash in.

There's https://simplemobiletools.com, who are doing their job to close that delta (not affiliated with them)

Those were sold to a predatory company. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...

Fork is https://github.com/FossifyOrg

Incredible, we cannot drop the guard even for a second. Thank you for the heads up!

Yet another tool that the users should have wanted to pay for before someone else did.

Keybee Keyboard uses a third party api called one-signal for push notifications, so they need the device location.

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