is Audacity now Spyware?

[audiojunkie]

Telemetry can be good or bad, depending on how it is used. I don't mind telemetry such as error reporting and version reporting and such. What I don't like, is when they go through everything I own, and use the metadata collected to push targeted advertising to my computer. The browser makers are the worst offenders in this case, but it seems everyone is trying to monetize this kind of telemetry. A good rule of thumb with these things is that if a company is offering you a product for free, you can be sure that "YOU" are the product. Your own personal determination will have to be the deciding factor as to whether this is something you are willing to tolerate or not. I personally try to avoid telemetry, but like I said above.....it all depends.

[seafire]

Audacity caught me cracking one off in my neighbours shed. Needless to say, I unistalled it.

[audiojunkie]

Audacity caught me cracking one off in my neighbours shed. Needless to say, I unistalled it.

[chk071]

Telemetry can be good or bad, depending on how it is used. I don't mind telemetry such as error reporting and version reporting and such.

Telemtetry can also be great to know "what the user wants". Unfortunately, people rather think that their own, subjective (and often minority) opinion equates to "what the user wants", rather than just activating telemetry.

[chk071]

Audacity caught me cracking one off in my neighbours shed. Needless to say, I unistalled it.

Your moans are in the cloud now. Tough luck.

[audiojunkie]

Telemetry can be good or bad, depending on how it is used. I don't mind telemetry such as error reporting and version reporting and such.

Telemtetry can also be great to know "what the user wants". Unfortunately, people rather think that their own, subjective (and often minority) opinion equates to "what the user wants", rather than just activating telemetry.

There may be truth to that. I think the ideal solution would be giving the user the choice to enable or disable such functionality. Then everyone should be happy!!!


......or would they be?

[imrae]

I had the timeline slightly wrong: telemetry came after Muse takeover but before license trouble. https://hackaday.com/2021/07/13/muse-gr ... -audacity/

[chk071]

Telemetry can be good or bad, depending on how it is used. I don't mind telemetry such as error reporting and version reporting and such.

Telemtetry can also be great to know "what the user wants". Unfortunately, people rather think that their own, subjective (and often minority) opinion equates to "what the user wants", rather than just activating telemetry.

There may be truth to that. I think the ideal solution would be giving the user the choice to enable or disable such functionality. Then everyone should be happy!!!

I frankly wouldn't mind, but, the way I know the fellow computer musicians, they will either all opt out, or even complain about it. So, I don't think it would be very popular.

As we all know, it's much better to burst out online with your wicked ideas, and then claim you're the majority's voice.

[seafire]

Audacity caught me cracking one off in my neighbours shed. Needless to say, I unistalled it.

Your moans are in the cloud now. Tough luck.

It was more a cry wank tbh...

[chk071]

Well, it may have ended up on a BDSM site then, if you're lucky.

[osiris]

I just stopped updating it after v 3.2.4 because it works so why fix something not broke?