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What happened with all the privacy invading stuff which Audacity went through a couple years ago? I never heard whether it got reverted or not.
Optional crash reporting was merged. Most of the backlash in the PR is about the significant dependencies (Google's BreakPad) which were pulled in with it.
However, by default Audacity isn't built with it, you need to specify a CMake with the URL to send data to. No distros that I know of enable reporting.
Ahhh I see. At least from Wikipedia, it looks like the auto-opt-in telemetry was dropped, which is good.
Wierd that it's owned by Muse group now, but glad it's alive and well.