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Ask HN: Is Win10 catching my recent keyboard input?

1 pointsby Elect2about 5 years ago
In a text editor (I tested sublime text3 and Sticky Notes), type any color name, example: &quot;red&quot;. Then open Web browser and google search &quot;color picker&quot;, the initial color is &quot;red&quot;.<p>Then close the web page. Try again type another color like &quot;blue&quot; in editor, then open google search &quot;color picker&quot;, it will show &quot;blue&quot;.<p>Why?

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mtmailabout 5 years ago
I tested the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?hl=en&amp;q=color%20picker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?hl=en&amp;q=color%20picker</a> and when refreshing the page it shows one of 4 colors: blue, red, green, yellow-ish&#x2F;orange. It&#x27;s likely that by pure chance (1 of 4) you saw those.