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Anything that uses web-supported auto-complete (your browsers, for one, regardless of search engine) must do this. There's literally no other way to ask the internet "What are the possible endings/meanings of what I've typed" without providing what you've typed, letter by letter.

Text correction doesn't require hitting the web, but learning about how people make typos does require some targeted data collection (typing followed by deletion and retyping, likely)



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