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I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

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Wasnt it something about data collection?

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It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it

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Any good alternatives?

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It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

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I remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it’s ok to use again.

I didn’t confirm it myself, but that’s part of why the alternatives aren’t seeing as much development now

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