r/mixingmastering • u/inlineofire • Jul 05 '21

News Sad to see audacity was ruined

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/audacity-free-collect-personal-data-russia-b1878305.html
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u/Cloud63 Jul 05 '21 edited Jul 05 '21

Tantacrul responded about this:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889

TLDR: Everything is sensationalized and blown out of proportion. They won't go through with the "harmful" update so Audacity is still fine to use.

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u/atopix Teaboy ☕ Jul 05 '21

That's from May. This is from today: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1225 where they indeed confirm that they collect IP and OS/system data. It may have been sensationalized, but the fact remains that they are collecting data for software that doesn't call for it, at all. Proven by the fact that no data was collected by Audacity for many years.