Audacity gets a CLA [LWN.net]

Audacity gets a CLA

Posted Jun 16, 2021 9:25 UTC (Wed) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
Parent article: Audacity gets a CLA

The [telemetry] feature, which was meant to be opt-in at install time...

I realise that the feature was dropped so this is all hypothetical now, but it seems odd to me to make that a per-installation setting, and not a per-user setting. I'd have thought that you should give each user of the product the ability to decide if they want their usage of the app tracked or not.

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Audacity gets a CLA

Posted Jun 16, 2021 15:39 UTC (Wed) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link]

My guess that Audacity, like a lot of other desktop Open Source programs such as my MKVToolNix, has a user base whose vast majority works on Windows. On Windows it's rather common to let the user make important decisions on installation time. And due to the nature of the topic Audacity deals with, it is highly likely that the type of Windows installations Audacity is run on are single-user PCs and not multi-user systems (such as terminal servers), making the distinction between "per installation" and "per user" mostly moot.