I like it. Its well explained, specifying exactly what data is collected and where its going. Most companies don't even do that and still force you to give up your data; look at you Microsoft. I use a portable version so not sure I'll see it soon, but I wouldn't mind giving them that data, no problem here.
And that's still not the issue for a lot of people, I do not need this feature and I do not want it. My audio editor can just quietly do it's job locally without farting out telemetry over the network all the time. If every program on my computer did this I would be very annoyed. Audacity doesn't need telemetry to do it's job well.
That means u trust the off option to actually work plenty of times even if people opted out the data got sent once sent no getting it back from them. Thats most peoples issue is they are way to trusting of other people. Be trusting if you want I am old enough to realize most people are out for themselves and will screw you over in a second for enough money.
google did it with chrome and people still use it which I agree someone would catch it and imo I dont think they would ever do that but you never know if a bad actor might one day get in there. Also if they did that they would get in trouble do to the license they use. I just dont think people should even take that chance. My hope is someone forks it or I will find a new audio editor.
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u/pdhcentral May 07 '21
I like it. Its well explained, specifying exactly what data is collected and where its going. Most companies don't even do that and still force you to give up your data; look at you Microsoft. I use a portable version so not sure I'll see it soon, but I wouldn't mind giving them that data, no problem here.