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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1120987" data-attributes="member: 39702">Yeah. That&#039;s my philosophy I stick to. The less software PC/apps phone/extensions browser has installed, the better. That alone significantly decreases number of possibly undiscovered vulnerabilities on the device. It also helps with keeping your devices in best shape and retaining the speed.This is kind of expected because it checks every single word you enter inside the browser, no matter if it&#039;s password or something else. I mean, they could stop spell check for passwords (because who the hell spell checks passwords), but that would ruin all the fun for them and would defeat the purpose of cloud spell checker. It&#039;s worth to note that standard spell checker doesn&#039;t send any information to Google. The only sent request is to download the dictionary on your device and it happens when you add a language in the settings of the browser. Same is with Google&#039;s standard Safe Browsing; it downloads file containing malicious URLs and checks everything locally. Enhanced Safe Browsing checks URLs in real time with their servers and sends URLs to Google. General rule is... if you value your privacy at least a bit, you&#039;ll turn off everything Google, Microsoft &amp; co. offer you. I wish there was an app that would do system-wide spell check and locally on the device. I&#039;d totally use that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1120987, member: 39702"] Yeah. That's my philosophy I stick to. The less software PC/apps phone/extensions browser has installed, the better. That alone significantly decreases number of possibly undiscovered vulnerabilities on the device. It also helps with keeping your devices in best shape and retaining the speed. This is kind of expected because it checks every single word you enter inside the browser, no matter if it's password or something else. I mean, they could stop spell check for passwords (because who the hell spell checks passwords), but that would ruin all the fun for them and would defeat the purpose of cloud spell checker. It's worth to note that standard spell checker doesn't send any information to Google. The only sent request is to download the dictionary on your device and it happens when you add a language in the settings of the browser. Same is with Google's standard Safe Browsing; it downloads file containing malicious URLs and checks everything locally. Enhanced Safe Browsing checks URLs in real time with their servers and sends URLs to Google. General rule is... if you value your privacy at least a bit, you'll turn off everything Google, Microsoft & co. offer you. I wish there was an app that would do system-wide spell check and locally on the device. I'd totally use that. [/QUOTE]

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