No, open source Audacity audio editor is not “spyware”

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  • audacity

    Discontinued Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as an open source software that respects user privacy. [Moved to: https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity] (by cookiengineer)

    "For what it's worth, I forked Audacity yesterday and removed all telemetry that could potentially spy on users from the codebase. We're currently deciding on a nice rebranded name (as Audacity is trademarked) and are in the process of founding a GitHub organization afterwards. We're also looking for maintainers that could help with Windows and MacOS builds. The repo's link is (for now):" https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

    See also, https://www.darkaudacity.com/

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