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		laughingbovine on March 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Summary of why Grammarly are predatory and you sh... IDGI... this is what Grammarly is supposed to do. Take your text and fix grammar/spelling/etc. How are they going to read your text if you don't send it to them? IANAL but I'm fairly sure they can't steal your copyright and if you're worried about them keeping data on you, then I have news about the rest of the internet you are not going to like...

cmmartin on March 11, 2019 [–]

They could read your text, provide their service and then discard it. Instead, they store it indefinitely. He states this explicitly right here https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1104132997110878208

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