• drislands@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?

    … seriously, that can’t be it, can it?

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      9 months ago

      Not really that simple, it was an apparent change to the privacy policy that vaguely anticipated collection of arbitrary user data, which shook the confidence of the open source community on the project. The fact this happened right after audacity was sold was the cherry on top.

      https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

      Changes were eventually reverted or revised.

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        9 months ago

        Were they reverted? I’ll have to check later, but an official statement from Muse Group stated they provided the data they collected to third parties so idk. If the telemetry is still there then I’m not downloading it, Open Source projects generally don’t need telemetry to begin with.

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      9 months ago

      yep… really just that…

      i’ve used it forever with a very restrictive firewall and i’ve never seen it do anything unexpected… or any phoning home at all…

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      9 months ago

      in 2021 Audacity was acquired by a company called MuseGroup who added unnecessary telemetry and they admit that they do provide the data the collect to third parties. It’s spyware as far as I’m concerned.

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          9 months ago

          If it was truly opt in, then why did the community feel the need to create forks removing the telemetry? Plus, a lot of FOSS don’t need telemetry to start with. They get tons of voluntary high quality feedback without automated collection.

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        9 months ago

        I’ve read this exact or very similar comment from you for the fourth time at least. You’re a spambot as far as I’m concerned.