Open source audio app Audacity has been dubbed spyware after new owner starts user data collection

9to5Mac is reporting the news on the latest versions of Audacity.

I would recommend not using Audacity from it’s current owner. This is an app that should not even be online and is stealing user data, WTF!

Now a Temporary-audacity is a fork of the audacity code which removes Sentry Telemetry and Crash Reporting, but you need to build it from the source code. Hopefully they will build a version that is easy to install for all OSes, but it will not be as easy as the main version, but at least it can exist because of the opensource nature of the source code.

Now Mashable is reporting on the company refuting that it is spyware. Don’t trust them though they want to steal your data, if they didn’t they wouldn’t be saying you have to be older than 13 to use the software.

EDIT:

So according to Engadget Muse is updating’s it’s privacy policy and won’t be selling any of the user information it collects. And it claims it needs to do this to add the automatic software update it is adding.

Honestly yes they need to update that atrocious privacy policy, but I don’t want them collecting anything unless I expressly allow it, and an offline program doesn’t need to know anything about my computer. Sure I could just use little snitch to block it, but i want a program fork on principle now.