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They have development costs to pay for which is substantial. Not sure why you are framing it as greedy and complaining it should be free vs celebrating someone putting this out there.

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Thanks. I don't want my data, especially voice and text to be sent to servers. That's why I built this.

I love my competitor's product, but the amount of private data I sent over was really uncomfortable to me. Especially when sometimes it included Phone Numbers and some private info.

At the same time, tools like mine will fall behind if I don't keep updating the models.

If you care so much about user privacy, why do you exfiltrate events named "dictation_started", "dictation_completed", "dictation_rejected", "dictation_blocked", "insertion_failed", etc to PostHog, with properties named: "audio_seconds", "latency_ms", "duration_ms", "install_id", etc?

Because anyone building a system needs performance metrics to understand how it’s behaving in aggregate / if they update the model? With the exception of install_id these all seem innocuous. Install_id is maybe needed anyway for purchase management. Probably could use a session uuid to track the other metrics at the cost of blinding you to being able to find individual customers with a bad experience which is probably much more important for a small player like this.

Apple provides APIs for doing this in a privacy-sensitive way, instead of exfiltrating data like this, carte blanche using PostHog.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metrickit

Thanks for your Feedback. More Privacy Improvements, Package Corrections and Attribution Incoming.

Yes These metrics are there to check system issues. Like Crashes and etc. Also I need to check Model performance too. However your data is yours, and this data will be anonymized too. I really want Jexxa to be private and secure, as I am a heavy user of it too.

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