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Audacity drama continues
Anger over Audacity’s use of telemetry reaches boiling point as 4chan gets involved.
Back in LXF278 we reported on how Audacity, the open-source audio editor, was acquired by the Muse Group. Although promising to keep Audacity free and open, the company added optional telemetry to the application which would upload certain data (which is detailed in the Audacity sub-Reddit at https://bit.ly/lxf280audacityreddit) to thirdparties, including Google and Yandex.