New Post: Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy

[FranklyFlawless]

Yes, you can read more about it in Tenacity’s README.md in the Codeberg repository, but I will bring the relevant quote up to the forefront for your convenience:

Motivation

Our project initially started as a fork of Audacity as a result of multiple controversies and public relation crises, which you can find out more about here:

• Privacy policy which may violate the original project’s GPL license
• Contributor’s License Agreement (CLA) which may violate the same GPL license
• Attempts at adding telemetry using Google services for data collection