• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    11 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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      11 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.