LanguageTool - Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker
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LanguageTool is a free grammar checker and paraphraser for English, Spanish, and 20 other languages. Instantly check your text for grammar and style mistakes.

*hearing in comments certains parts aren’t foss

  • Skimmer@lemmy.zip
    74·
    11 个月前

    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.

      • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        11 个月前

        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.

        • alfisya@lemm.ee
          8·
          11 个月前

          At least restaurants are subjected to health and safety inspection. Software never have, and right now opening their code is the only way to ensure that.

        • snek_boi@lemmy.ml
          21·
          11 个月前

          Except a restaurant is not asking to log every word of yours in exchange for pizza.

    • Nia [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      13·
      11 个月前

      Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I’ll be uninstalling then.

      I’m okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I’d rather be able to know exactly what it’s doing with it.

    • wAkawAka@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 个月前

      Thanks for pointing out! This tool seems to look and work awesome, but non-foss browser extension is an instant ‘NO’…

    • BruceLee@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      By extension do you mean the browser extensions only or also the add-on for word processor ?

    • gelberhut@lemdro.id
      22·
      11 个月前

      Note about deepl: according to their EULA they collect all what you type there and use it for training their algorithm. They are much smaller that Google and co, what makes me thinking that your data could be more “visible” in the training results.

      The service as such is good, though.

      • WhiteHotaru@feddit.de
        8·
        11 个月前

        I think this is only the case with the free version. Source: I worked with some big German companies which wanted to have an autotranslate function for their software. DeepL was the top choice, because the quality is very good and the data protection agreements for the paid service left no questions.

        • gelberhut@lemdro.id
          51·
          11 个月前

          Most probably this is correct. One can say the same about most enterprise targeting offers, for example by Microsoft.

          People who consider it for private usage should make decisions knowing such details.

      • moitoi@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        EULA they collect all what you type there and use it for training their algorithm

        This isn’t the case for some specific corporate contract for the pro version. But, it’s not publicly available.

        • gelberhut@lemdro.id
          21·
          11 个月前

          Disclaimer: this is a personal impression/thoughts, I could be dramatically wrong here.

    • WhiteHotaru@feddit.de
      5·
      11 个月前

      They have total different use cases. DeepL is a translator, language tool checks for style and grammar.

      I use both frequently and both do a very good job. I have a prime membership of language tool and I like it. Both are German companies and operate under GDPR.

    • moitoi@feddit.de
      3·
      11 个月前

      It’s not bad at all, and multilingual. I like it as I can write in multiple language making less mistakes.

    • zoe@lemm.ee
      11·
      11 个月前

      off topic: is deepl down or something ? thing doesn’t respond :/

      edit: now works

    • moitoi@feddit.de
      4·
      11 个月前

      You can use it in Firefox/Fennec/other forks on Android. It’s better than nothing.

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    11 个月前

    Interestingly I knew about Languagetool long before I got to constantly see Grammarly ads. With the right tools it’s useful for checking latex etc.

  • Navarian@lemm.ee
    51·
    11 个月前

    I use this often when I’m writing articles, it’s incredibly easy to use and I’ve yet to have any issues with it.

    I use it on Waterfox, for what it’s worth. Absolutely recommend.

      • Navarian@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 个月前

        When I switched from FF to WF it was lighter on system resources, faster and cut out a lot of the telemetry included in FF.

        I’ve not used Firefox for well over a year now, so I can’t speak to that still being the case, but those were the main draws for me.

        • mac@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 个月前

          I switched off of waterfox and back to firefox with arkenfox user.js when I noticed they were behind on a security update.

  • TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml
    3·
    11 个月前

    It’s working pretty well for me with integration into Firefox, (libre)office and you can decide if you want to run your own server locally, or rely on their server as a premium subscription.