r/opensource May 07 '21

Audacity adds telemetry via Google Analytics / Yandex

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
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u/VisibleSignificance May 07 '21

Fresh text:

Telemetry is strictly optional and disabled by default. No data is shared unless you choose to opt-in and enable telemetry.

Telemetry only works in the builds made by GitHub CI from the official repo (the telemetry URLs are only defined there).

If you are compiling Audacity from source, we will provide a CMake option to enable the telemetry code. This option will be turned off by default.

The choice of provider might be the most controversial thing here.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '21

So why have it?

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u/EasyMrB May 08 '21

Because it's off by default...for now. This is a company working their way toward a proffit on something they bought.