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Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins
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What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?
.... seriously, that can't be it, can it?
Not really that simple, it was an apparent change to the privacy policy that vaguely anticipated collection of arbitrary user data, which shook the confidence of the open source community on the project. The fact this happened right after audacity was sold was the cherry on top.
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213
Changes were eventually reverted or revised.
Were they reverted? I'll have to check later, but an official statement from Muse Group stated they provided the data they collected to third parties so idk. If the telemetry is still there then I'm not downloading it, Open Source projects generally don't need telemetry to begin with.
in 2021 Audacity was acquired by a company called MuseGroup who added unnecessary telemetry and they admit that they do provide the data the collect to third parties. It's spyware as far as I'm concerned.
If opt-in telemetry is spyware then the FOSS community truly is off the rails.
If it was truly opt in, then why did the community feel the need to create forks removing the telemetry? Plus, a lot of FOSS don't need telemetry to start with. They get tons of voluntary high quality feedback without automated collection.