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Audacity is headed down this road, headed by the same seedy YouTube creator. They tried to weasel Google Analytics into audacity under peoples' noses, and then

• nomadpenguin 3y ago
  Why do you think Tantacrul is seedy? I've watched a couple of his videos and thought they were entertaining; does he have a history of doing shady things?
  • junon 3y ago
    After taking over MuseScore and introducing most, if not all, of the dark patterns mentioned by the article, he took over Audacity and tried to spy on users, berating and banning people on the PR and followup discussions for expressing anger.
    • Tantacrul 3y ago
      Tantacrul here. I have had absolutely nothing to do with the design of MuseScore.com. I was hired to work on the open source notation app, which is free - meaning users can't subscribe to anything, so it isn't possible for me to have instituted anything like these patterns. We also never put anything in Audacity to 'spy' on users. That's verifiably untrue because the app is open source and anyone can check the code to verify it. The actual thing people were irritated by was our attempt to include opt-in telemetry, which is a pretty significantly different thing to spyware. Users rebelled against the idea, so we didn't include it.
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• Tokkemon 3y ago
  Got a link?