<story><title>Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?</title><url>https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>Years ago I worked at a company where many people were using Grammarly. One of the top devs took a look at it, and saw that the text was sent to Grammarly&amp;#x27;s server unencrypted and warned everyone not to use it. Some still did.&lt;p&gt;At my previous engagement, a large number of staff spoke English as a second or third language, and Grammarly was prevalent. Even as a native English speaker, they wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader. I&amp;#x27;ll admit that it caught some of my dumber mistakes, but I never felt comfortable using it. I could have proof-read my work better is all. Perhaps if I wasn&amp;#x27;t given mind-numbing work, the quality would have been better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctennis1</author><text>My previous role was at a public facing ecommerce site. One day I started noticing a lot of public traffic to internal administrative endpoints that were failing - likely bots, but also to URLs that bots would have never known existed. Urls that only someone internal to the company would even know existed, due to the complex way they were crafted. It was very concerning.&lt;p&gt;We spent a LOT of time tracking down, and finally realized that the &amp;quot;bot&amp;quot; traffic was coming about 30 minutes after one of our employees legitimated visited the site. We found that user was using grammarly. Once we deactivated grammarly, all of the bot traffic stopped.&lt;p&gt;As best as I could tell, every URL that particular person went to in their browsers, grammarly had a service about 30 minutes later that would try and hit the url directly and ascertain what was there.&lt;p&gt;Haven&amp;#x27;t been on the crusade against it ever since.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?</title><url>https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>Years ago I worked at a company where many people were using Grammarly. One of the top devs took a look at it, and saw that the text was sent to Grammarly&amp;#x27;s server unencrypted and warned everyone not to use it. Some still did.&lt;p&gt;At my previous engagement, a large number of staff spoke English as a second or third language, and Grammarly was prevalent. Even as a native English speaker, they wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader. I&amp;#x27;ll admit that it caught some of my dumber mistakes, but I never felt comfortable using it. I could have proof-read my work better is all. Perhaps if I wasn&amp;#x27;t given mind-numbing work, the quality would have been better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boppo1</author><text>&amp;gt; wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t imagine working in a place like this. I often write with some unusual but perfectly valid grammar constructions that are a result of being well read. Running what I&amp;#x27;ve written, the codification of my thoughts, through a statistical homogenization machine is dystopian in a way I had never imagined. What kind of business was it?&lt;p&gt;Imagine running famous writers through this thing, even if they&amp;#x27;re just journalists. Gross. I&amp;#x27;m gonna run Moby Dick through Grammarly later and see what it has to say.</text></comment>