- Don't use shit that monitors in such a way.
- Where you can't avoid it, do your work in a separate, trusted program and then copy paste it in.
- Where you can't paste, I'm sure you could whip up an ahk script to 'type' for you from the clipboard.
- If you're at this step, they've already won.
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At this rate, I'm gonna have to go Amish.
There is typing speed 'obfuscators' available, such as kloak, and it's also available in Whonix: https://github.com/Whonix/kloak
It also obfuscates mouse movements (to a degree). But the Whonix docs say it's not as effective as the typing speed obfuscation kloak provides. There's some more context in their docs if you're interested: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Keystroke_and_Mouse_Deanonymization
As for typing style, I assume you mean stylometry, Whonix also has a page on that here: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stylometry
For that, the best known mitigation just seems to be to intentionally change up how you write in certain ways, or to "imitate the style of other known authors" (whatever that means). The docs say that "automated methods like machine translation services" aren't a viable mitigation, but I'm not sure if that includes something like using AI to rewrite your sentences.
Are there any measures available to protect against this?
- Disable scripts in your web browser, except for important sites that depend on javascript.
- If any of those important sites are not trustworthy, write text in a local editor and copy/paste it into the site where needed. Do not type directly into text fields on the site.
- Avoid other sites that require scripts.
- Ask and/or pressure site owners to make them work without scripts where possible.
Keep in mind that however you modify your text entry habits on untrusted sites, if scripts are allowed, your modified behavior can also be fingerprinted.