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> Anyone knows if there is more known about this new owner They are a known entity (owners of the well-known Ultimate Guitar site), and their previous purchase
by p49k 5y ago
> Anyone knows if there is more known about this new owner
They are a known entity (owners of the well-known Ultimate Guitar site), and their previous purchases make it clear what their likely motivation is with Audacity: to make money in a somewhat standard way among startups these days.
They are likely adding trackers so that they can sell ads within audacity and improve their ad targeting on their actual sites. They will likely add premium features to Audacity and sell some kind of subscription service. I wouldn't be surprised to see the same kind of dark patterns/false urgency that you see in the Ultimate Guitar app.
I think that people should be legitimately concerned, but their behavior is no worse than 90% of the startups discussed on HN (not to say that's a good thing, but just to give perspective)
- elmo2you 5y agoThank you. It sure sounds plausible, as much as I dislike it. It's one thing to see startups involved in questionable business practices with their own/new products. Quite another seeing existing useful software be destroyed by it. Looks like all that talk about the GPL being too restrictive doesn't mean that much in practice, if stunts like these can still be pulled.