![]() I'd suggest that everyone dislikes the video now that we know that he definitely wants to turn the program into spyware. I found out about the spyware PR by watching his video and deciding to check Audacity's GitHub out of curiosity. Or how they will send your usage info from said audio editor to law enforcement in Russia and beyond.Īpparently Putin is sitting in his office wanting to know how many fart.wav sound effects I export every month.īy the way here is a video that the guy who owns Muse made about his acquisition of Audacity. ![]() I also like how they changed it so anyone under 13 cannot legally use an audio editor. But obviously I and most other people knew that this would only be temporary before they did it again. At that time I had also posted the link to the PR along with an explanation of what is happening with Audacity on the ZDoom Discord, then they backed down from adding the spyware. I remember when one of Muse's programmers first made a pull request that added spyware to the program, which then caused the comments on the PR to become a massive shitshow where Audacity was dogpiled by everyone for adding telemetry, and from Google of all companies no less. It's funny what you can get attached to, huh? Real shame. This stupid little program has been a constant and reliable piece of kit in my life for years. I can't help but feel really disappointed, personally. I'm probably going to start looking for an alternative at some point, but there's a little bit of solace for you regarding this development. I personally haven't updated my version of Audacity in the last 4 years because I haven't needed to. If you're currently using an older version, keep it! Anything older than v3.0.3 is free of the Telementry thing, which means it doesn't "talk" back to the developers and feed them your info. There is some slight good news too: This is all regarding the NEW version of the software. ![]() Here's a peek at who's going to have access to your data:Īnother interesting aside is because of this new change, the software now has to restrict itself from being used by people under the age of 13, which naturally violates its own GPL licence agreement it uses, so there's a well-earned can of worms the bastards will have to wrestle with now.įortunately because Audacity's software has been open-source for two decades, you can bet your arse there are some cunning programmers out there coding up some forks right now and there's already some chatter about it going on across GitHub and Reddit. Audacity's new Privacy Policy, Section 7 However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA." "All your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). The most secure and definitely not-at-all sketchy epicentre of shonky Internet practices in any way! Oh and the best part: They're sending your data to their headquarters in fucking Russia of all places. It also allows MuseGroup and its associates to take note of your computer build, your OS, your IP address, your country location and sell your data to the highest bidder much like what Facebook and similar apps and sites do. In the latest version of Audacity, they've switched up their Privacy Policy to include spying on your hardware for the purposes of "Law Enforcement" and don't tell you anything much more specific than that. Thanks to this news, my concerns were validated: the plucky little 20 year old program that has been a long-time stalwart of open-source software that I myself have been using for over a decade has become what I had originally feared: A corporate product that wants to treat you as the product by sucking up your user data. When I originally heard that news, I was very worried that the program wouldn't be the same. ![]() To elaborate, a while back the development team were bought out by some company called MuseGroup. I have some disappointing news for all audiophiles and other similar long-time users: The long time and much respected open-source audio editing program, Audacity, has more or less turned itself into spyware.
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