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LanguageTool - a *foss Grammarly alternative (potentially not foss)
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Their extension isn't open source anymore, see here, so I don't recommend it personally, especially with how sensitive the data it collects is, its basically a keylogger, so trust is super important imo.
If they don't trust you with the source, you can trust them with your data.
While I appreciate the sentiment, isn't that effectively the same as "if the restaurant won't give you the complete recipe for their pizza sauce, how do you know they're not trying to poison you?"
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Except a restaurant is not asking to log every word of yours in exchange for pizza.
Thanks for pointing out! This tool seems to look and work awesome, but non-foss browser extension is an instant 'NO'...
Damn, I didn't know that. :/
By extension do you mean the browser extensions only or also the add-on for word processor ?
tell me anything that isn't