They've been advertising to me hardcore and it is completely free. It makes me wonder what data they are selling.<p>I have no issue with them advertising to me based on what I've typed but if they put me in audiences based on it and sell those I get uncomfortable.
I have always wondered why spelling and grammar checkers - which could easily fit on your computer back in the 90s - needed a cloud-based provider.<p>One could easily build chrome extensions that DIDN'T phone home.<p>Today deep learning data can be downloaded to each computer. They are doing it with small IOT!!
While we are focusing on Facebook, Google etc. for breaking our privacy to extract data and pass it to third parties, we are willing to use Grammarly, CloudFlare and CrashPlan, pay for it and use it while hoping they will not work with security services. We need much more transparency it seems.
For those interested, here's the site: <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.grammarly.com/</a>
They send a weekly emails with chunks of text they corrected so that means my data is being transferred somewhere. I would stay away from this service.
What's one more keylogger?<p>Your OS is already logging your keystrokes, your browser is already logging your keystrokes, who even knows what else is already logging your keystrokes.<p>Obviously I speak here for the majority of computer users, I imagine many (most?) in the HN readership have taken steps to reduce the amount of keylogging they are exposed to as much as possible already.