Stop. Just Stop. Software does not need to violate a users privacy to provide functionality that is not really needed at all such as auto-updating, nor crash

Stop. Just Stop. Software does not need to violate a users privacy to provide functionality that is not really needed at all such as auto-updating, nor crash reporting. Calling any of this as anything other than Telemetry data is factually incorrect The movement around forking is NOT just over this new privacy policy, but is a culmination several actions by the new owners of the project to go agaist some very basic norms of Open Source stewardship. Further they are more or less giving the Linux Maintainer community a "FU" over their use of custom / modified version wxwidgets which makes packaging the 3x version of Audacity problematic for many linux distribution for security reasons. As to the statement that "opt-in does not work with crash reporting" Sure it does, Many applications (including Microsoft, and Mozilla) have a dialog that ASKS the user if they would like to submit crash reporting data to the vendor on a per crash basis, There is LITERALLY zero technical reason for automatic, opt-out crash reporting