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There's a pretty good write up on the topic [1] over on arstechnica. Author of the above is clearly overreacting or trying to ride some kind of rage-train to mo
by amarant 5y ago
There's a pretty good write up on the topic [1] over on arstechnica. Author of the above is clearly overreacting or trying to ride some kind of rage-train to more clicks.
Especially the quote from one of the authors of audacity which states "telemetry collection is optional and configurable at any time"
Wether it's opt-in or opt-out is a smaller issue IMO. Like the article on Ars also states, even Firefox telemetry is opt-out, and you don't often see people raging about FF not being privacy sensitive enough....
[1]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audac...
- danaris 5y agoFor once, I disagree with Ars Technica. Sure, what they're doing right now appears not to be nefarious. But they're putting language into their user agreements that opens the door for them to be nefarious in the future with no warning or recourse.
- amarant 5y agoWithout recourse? Audacity is still Foss right? If they screw up bad enough you can just fork em! And I'm sure it will be big news when they actually do mess up, given how big news it became when they didn't even, so you'll probably know about it.
- im3w1l 5y ago> you don't often see people raging about FF not being privacy sensitive enough.... There are actually a bunch of HN threads about just that.