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#Spyware audacity windows 10#

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Of course, I'd imagine that telemetry won't break my app if I don't connect to the internet but it's all part of a pattern of software becoming more and more about what the owners of the application can do to monetise me and what they can get away with (whether that's the plan for Audacity or not.

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Whether their intentions are evil or not (I don't believe they are in this case) is irrelevant.įor me, it's another nail in the coffin of owning my own stuff and not having to be connected all the time.įor example, why do I want to use an offline application that can potentially send information about me to foreign countries? What possible benefit is there for me in that? Even the list I gave for tracking IMAP, I fully expect that there exists sharp disagreement about whether some of those entries would be okay for telemetry purposes.ĭon't get me wrong, I've grabbed my pitchfork at times in the past and some of them have been massive overreactions but I think this is people saying 'Oh ffs! Is nothing sacred?'Īudacity is now joining the ranks (yes, the scale is much different) of Google, Microsoft.

And you don't need to necessarily route it through a third party if we're talking about open-source software, the data that's being tracked is public knowledge-an organization that reviews telemetry and gives a stamp of approval would be sufficient to achieve the same ends.īut even then, I suspect many people are going to have different ideas as to what data is safe to track. So what you really want is someone to approve the choice of what to track, which isn't what a third-party library or service is likely to give you.

What matters for privacy concerns is the choice of data being tracked how it's actually collected and transmitted is comparatively unimportant. There's a gradient of scuminess going on there, all to (purportedly) track the same information. Or maybe they could carefully parse the CAPABILITIES response and only report the existence of specific tokens (which may include capabilities not yet supported by the client) back as telemetry. Or they could ship the CAPABILITIES response verbatim. Or instead run an IMAP ID command and log the response. They could, say, log every IMAP server you connect to. Consider this scenario:Ī developer of an email client wishes to use telemetry to figure out which IMAP features are most worth supporting.