I have never been the sort of person to obsess over keyboard apps. A keyboard is a keyboard, right? Well, Gboard had always sat at the bottom of my screen, auto-correcting my typos and suggesting words with an almost unsettling accuracy. The problem with that unsettling accuracy, it turns out, is exactly that: it’s unsettling. Gboard includes a “Share usage statistics” telemetry option, and disabling it is the only way to stop it from transmitting keyboard usage statistics and snippets of your typing to Google’s servers.
