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Audacity facing scrutiny after new privacy policy allows data collection, makes app 13+
Muse Group (the owners of MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar) recently acquired Audacity in early May. On July 2nd, a new privacy policy for the app was posted to the app's website. Audacity did not previously have any sort of privacy policy in place for the app on their website, so there is no prior archived version of this page before its original publishing on July 2nd.
Much of this new privacy policy is harmless and, realistically, only exists for protecting the interests of Muse Group in any instance of legal trouble. However, users are frustrated over some of the choices made in this document.
Notably, the privacy policy includes the following: "The App we provide is not intended for individuals below the age of 13. If you are under 13 years old, please do not use the App." [...] In addition to the concerns raised by educators, the privacy policy seems to imply that if contacted by law enforcement, there is no limitation on what data they may collect.
See also: Audacity has been acquired by Muse Group, which also owns MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar (May 4)
Audio editor Audacity has the audacity to add telemetry collection -- and users are not happy (May 8)
Telemetry Debate Rocks Audacity Community In Open Source Dustup (May 17)
Audacity reverses course on plans to add opt-in telemetry after outcry (May 17)
Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusations (June 6)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 06 2021, @10:33PM (2 children)
Why did they buy audacity in the first place? What do they want out of it?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 06 2021, @10:53PM (1 child)
Because it's considered the dumber of the two most popular DAWs (the other being Ardour), and being dumb appeals to Mac-faggots who did all their work in GarageBand but are too broke to afford a new Mac to show off to those around them.
Now let's talk about Ardour -- they make you pay for the precompiled version. Looks like Linux is no longer "free as in beer" if you want to do anything other than browse the web or edit text files, unless you want to spend more time researching and tweeking than actually using the program. Welcome to 2005!
If you want to record music on Linux without either of those two, for free, then you're stuck with the typical Linux compromise of shitty and cryptic UI's, crash-causing bugs, drum machines without time signatures, and incompatibility with all the third-party plugins you like...although it's not like Audacity and Ardour also don't have those problems to some degree.
That is the kind of world you get when Purple-haired Jewish trannies dominate your OS/app ecosystem. Modern Linux is like the COVID vaccines, only greedy salivating Jews are pushing it, but there are a lot of those noisy fuckers to create the illusion of consensus (when, in fact, it's consensus by gunpoint since the woke mob took over). The rest moved back to Windows, where shit just works, or on to something else like BSD that has all the functionality of 2002-era Linux.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday July 07 2021, @02:27AM
Personally, I think
you are full of shitmistaken [slackware.nl], but I was amusedLa politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..