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Because it's more time and effort to make a service that checks spelling (are you accounting for stems? Possessives? Other uses of the single quote such as contractions?) and suggests corrections than to wrap an already-existing service that does the same. I find it highly plausible that the author of the plug-in wrote it to solve their needs and just made it available because hey, it doesn't cost them anything.



I want to believe, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805189

Instant uninstall. This is exactly the kind of crap I expected when MS announced they'd invest in open source.




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