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fuckin phone.... trying to out me.angry_smile
!BadGrandMotherFucker 1467 reads
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So I'm typing away on my smartphone browsing ter, minding my own damn bizness and next thing I know auto-correct wordprediction on my smartphone predicts the wrong word! :  unique name of a provider or someone I know in civvy world, their work email, or something very identifying about me like my ex girlfriend's email, my nick name, a friend's work number, etc. Basically, Stuff that when your friends search those online, they might know who you are.

If I had sneezed (or hicupped) and accidentally clicked enter it would have been submitted. I doubt mods would approve it or would delete it (assuming they notice), but eitherway if it is buried in a long post it is harder to spot.   Worst part is that once it gets posted, search engines spiders crawl that stuff and soon that info becomes permanent on the internet, searchable by anyone. That same friend who has a very unique name may be able to identify you by your ter rant.

I've since erased some info and turned off that prediction feature but curious if anyone had an untrustworthy smartphone that betrayed you by accidentally outing something private and identifying, and you weren't aware of it until it was too late?  

I seem that Apparently, it doesn't seem to be a big enough problem but something to be careful about.

Yodal221 reads

I just got one from work the other day. I know what your are saying with the virtual keyboard.  It takes a while to get use to touching it right to get the right keys. Mine keeps on asking if I want a British keyboard.

Posted By: !BadGrandMotherFucker

So I'm typing away on my smartphone browsing ter, minding my own damn bizness and next thing I know auto-correct wordprediction on my smartphone predicts the wrong word! :  unique name of a provider or someone I know in civvy world, their work email, or something very identifying about me like my ex girlfriend's email, my nick name, a friend's work number, etc. Basically, Stuff that when your friends search those online, they might know who you are.

If I had sneezed (or hicupped) and accidentally clicked enter it would have been submitted. I doubt mods would approve it or would delete it (assuming they notice), but eitherway if it is buried in a long post it is harder to spot.   Worst part is that once it gets posted, search engines spiders crawl that stuff and soon that info becomes permanent on the internet, searchable by anyone. That same friend who has a very unique name may be able to identify you by your ter rant.

I've since erased some info and turned off that prediction feature but curious if anyone had an untrustworthy smartphone that betrayed you by accidentally outing something private and identifying, and you weren't aware of it until it was too late?  

I seem that Apparently, it doesn't seem to be a big enough problem but something to be careful about.

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beach6216221 reads

Posted By: !BadGrandMotherFucker

So I'm typing away on my smartphone browsing ter, minding my own damn bizness and next thing I know auto-correct wordprediction on my smartphone predicts the wrong word! :  unique name of a provider or someone I know in civvy world, their work email, or something very identifying about me like my ex girlfriend's email, my nick name, a friend's work number, etc. Basically, Stuff that when your friends search those online, they might know who you are.

If I had sneezed (or hicupped) and accidentally clicked enter it would have been submitted. I doubt mods would approve it or would delete it (assuming they notice), but eitherway if it is buried in a long post it is harder to spot.   Worst part is that once it gets posted, search engines spiders crawl that stuff and soon that info becomes permanent on the internet, searchable by anyone. That same friend who has a very unique name may be able to identify you by your ter rant.

I've since erased some info and turned off that prediction feature but curious if anyone had an untrustworthy smartphone that betrayed you by accidentally outing something private and identifying, and you weren't aware of it until it was too late?  

I seem that Apparently, it doesn't seem to be a big enough problem but something to be careful about.

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anonymousfun220 reads

Has many options to personalize the iPhone.

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!BadGrandMotherFucker185 reads

And I found iphone to be mediocre in features and processor very slow compared to the phone I use

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anonymousfun156 reads

Specifically stated don’t know about  phones other than iPhone. Apparently, turning off whatever is not working, but you have Faster processor, umm, so get outed by mistake faster. Enjoy!

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!BadGrandMotherFucker214 reads

I wasn't looking for a technical advice. lol   At least you admit that you lack a diverse knowledge of what's out there, most people don't have the balls to admit to that. ;)

I had already turned off the customized word-suggestion feature a while ago... and haven't had the problem since. Like I said, I felt talking about this would be helpful for others but I disguised/combined it as a RANT in order to follow the rant theme that LP allowed a few days ago.  If I wasn't surfing TER then the feature would be extremely useful as it saves time typing.

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mrfisher133 reads

Every time I hit a certain key, it says out loud:  "Please say a command."

So I tell it to go fuck itself.

So far, nothing.

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