On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 02:01:16 -0800 William Morder via tde-users users@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