6 Mar
2025
6 Mar
'25
5:54 p.m.
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 02:01:16 -0800
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Also, over the past couple years I've been reading
various complaints about
the new "privacy" policies of Audacity: that it now snoops on users, even
when it's not running, if it's installed on a system. I would like to find a
better fork that respects our privacy, but so far I have found nothing to
compare with it in GNU/Linux programs.
The telemetry features embedded in Audacity can be disabled at compile-time.
I'd assume that any sane linux distro is building it with the appropriate
configuration. Having them present at all isn't good policy, granted, but
having them not-mandatory means that there's limited interest in forking
the codebase.
Just make sure that any prebuilt binaries you install do *not* come from
the Audacity development team, and you should be okay.
E. Liddell