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by ocdtrekkie 1766 days ago
I would strongly discourage use of Grammarly: It's essentially a keylogger which uploads everything you type to their cloud service, and there is really no guarantee of privacy or ability to delete that data.
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I have the same concerns (and don’t use it for private writing) but I figured for public web copy it’s not a huge deal. Also, you can (or at least could) install their desktop app which would require you to do writing in it or copy/paste it in to get their suggestions. That way only the content you want to send to them goes, rather than everything.
You are right, for text that will be public it isn't too bad.

Good tip with the Desktop app, but that doesn't seem like an ideal solution either.

Keeping my fingers away from Grammerly all together sounds like the best option IMO!

Good to know, thanks! I'm currently using Microsoft's Editor extension.

Do you have any good alternatives?