Starting with version 1.4.0, this translation app contacts translate.google.comdirectly, undermining all previous privacy efforts, which had used separate SimplyTranslate proxy instances before.
Despite the drastic change, there hasn’t been any announcement. Its developer doesn’t seem to have any interest in making this more public. A clear explanation for the change is missing up to this point.
Hi, do you mean this dev’s comment? All given reasons really don’t make any sense to me, which honestly raises doubts. Personally I did only notice, because my DNS blocker filtered access to the google domain.
Yeah, let’s hope for clarifications. But certain level of trust is already lost with this move.