Audacity is Now Spyware
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@code3 , where is the forked alternative, supposing I need this app now? I am bored with alternatives FOSS which worked "selfhosted". Well this are probably free of trackers, but also the server you use, if it isn't a own one?
For this the only thing what a normal user can do and must do, is to read the TOS and PP of the app, before he decide to use it. There is no other way. It's irrelevant if it's FOSS or not. -
@code3 Yes, you need friendly helpers and colleagues.
As "Audacity" is GPL you can fork a version with out tracking and telemetry. And that is nice with open software.
But you can not call it "Audacity", there is a trademark registered.And as i know for my Debian the Audac* 2.x packages have no telemetry and other spy functions.
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@doctorg , yes, for those which can doo this. Depending on the complexity of the app, not a work for only one developer, it's not only fork the app ando put an another logo, it's review every line of the script, a lot of them pointing to extern functions, drivers and directions, which also need to be reviewed, and to search scripts alternatives which have the same function. Search security patches for the updates which are not those from Google and other big third party companies.
It's esasy to say, wait for an fork, but to do it well is another thing. -
@catweazle said in Audacity is Now Spyware:
where is the forked alternative, supposing I need this app now?
https://search.brave.com/search?q=audacity+fork+no+telemetry
https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity
Well this are probably free of trackers, but also the server you use, if it isn't a own one?
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@catweazle It's not perfect but it's not horrible. There are other options - including raspberry pi server. There are also other VPS providers but I'm not linking to every not-big-tech VPS provider just to prove my point
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@doctorg said in Audacity is Now Spyware:
Slightly offtopic, but as we talk about Audacity and its forks, haters attacked a Audicity fork maintainer and he gave up for his own & family's safety. #nohate #resist
That's just awful. Read something earlier either on Ars Technica or The Register about that.
There is something very wrong right now with some folks relationship with technology.
I can never understand the levels of anger directed at people who make computer programmes... I just don't understand it.
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@jtid , me neither. The worst thing is that it is not only happening in the computer world, but in general a worrying increase of violent and intolerant people in society.
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@jtid said in Audacity is Now Spyware:
I can never understand the levels of anger directed at people who make computer programmes... I just don't understand it.
Some of the folks in the open-source movement are crazy, unfortunately.
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https://youtu.be/gQI7bkK7KkU a bit more info.
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