alt Hacker NewsNot predicting to something controversial when doing predictive text isn't censorship. You can still type any of these things. When I swing my finger around wildly it's making a best guess; not jumping to a phrase that makes me look bad or get arrested (in some countries) isn't an awful design choice.
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Just because one mode of input is not censored doesn't mean that the other modes are not censored.
If it was explicit and could be opt-out (partially or totally) it would be a good feature.
duck off
It's taking a position
> When I swing my finger around wildly it's making a best guess;
Alright, well some of us are actually deft at swiping text on our phones and would very much like the keyboard to type the word we entered.
>You can still type any of these things.
for now :)
True, it's a very user-oriented feature. That's why they let you disable it, and also let you edit the blacklist, so that you can prevent accidentally typing words that are offensive in your own cultural context.
... Actually I'm not sure if they let you do those.
Try getting things done on such a device in a military context. A thousand acronyms adopted by generals who dont know the internet from a hole in the ground. I saw a Gunnary Seargent scream when he saw his rank acronym (GySgt) get autocorrected on a form to gynocologist (i suspect he hit a suggested word popup). It is bad enough having to deal with the keyboard rejecting capital letters in the middle of a word.
Of course! And the next logical step would be to restrict the entry of such phrases via the keyboard. Isn't an awful design choice either.
I'm not sure you get what's exactly happening. It's not only not predicting, it's also "typing something else".
Swipe "Ireland" alone, works. "United" alone, works.
Same swipes but back to back, and now it's suddenly "United Iceland".
There's no predictive text involved here, this starts going into the willful territory.