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Sorry for trying to add it or sorry for cocking up the comms? Richard Speed Fri 14 May 2021 // 18:23 UTC Share Copy Amid the smell of burning rubber, the new managers of open-source audio editor Audacity have announced a U-turn on plans to introduce "basic telemetry" into the product. Audacity pitched up under the umbrella of Muse Group earlier this month and professed itself to be both "scared and excited." Mere days later, an impressive number of users went for the former option and expressed alarm at a GitHub request introducing "basic telemetry." Plans to use Googl...

Audio editor Audacity has the audacity to add telemetry collection -- and users are not happy Whatever the reasons behind it, the inclusion of telemetry collection in software never goes down well -- as Microsoft knows all too well from the reaction to Windows 10 telemetry. Now, open-source audio editor Audacity has taken the decision to add such data capture into the software. The development team stresses that telemetry exists solely to "identify product issues early", but there has already been quite a backlash. The sharing of data with Google and Yandex has not gone well. The development ...

However, stir third-party services like Google Analytics and Yandex into the mix and the reaction is overwhelmingly negative. There is also the question of opt in vs opt out. Red Hat software engineer Eric Gustavsson had a poke through the code and confirmed it was an opt-in affair, although we can see how a user cheerfully clicking through boxes (because nobody ever does that) might inadvertently opt themselves in. Telemetry collection is not a new thing for other brands under the Muse Group umbrella. Stablemate notation software firm Musescore defended its use of the technology back in 201...