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[–] drislands 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?

.... seriously, that can't be it, can it?

[–] eager_eagle 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really that simple, it was an apparent change to the privacy policy that vaguely anticipated collection of arbitrary user data, which shook the confidence of the open source community on the project. The fact this happened right after audacity was sold was the cherry on top.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

Changes were eventually reverted or revised.