Why so many hates from developers who never used or helped building Audacity ?
Long gone are the days of a program that bombed, so one would send the core dump containing a great deal of personal information and sensitive data to the developers who would investigate the bug and mail back an uuencoded solution. Sounds old? Yeah because it is.
This is now a connected world in which every hole can be exploited to make money or gain advantages over other people, software that phones home -no matter if in perfect good faith or not- can be exploited to do nasty things. Thumbs down.
This Github thread has literal calls for violence, racism and other such things in it and people keep piling on more. Tomorrow we'll have a different thread.
People are outraged at being tracked. That's perfectly acceptable outrage.
The worst comments are gone. I reported some to Github and they removed the responsible accounts.
> People are outraged at being tracked
People are outraged at opt-in functionality. Whether it should exist is worth discussing (and, of course, how it should be implemented) - but lets not pretend that there is some evil move to "steal" your data going on here.
Searching for what this company supposedly did wrong brings up a bunch of terrible articles which literally quote stuff like 4chan greentext with fictional (and implausible) scenarios for how this can be abused.
Is this tracking going to be useful for their purposes? No idea. Should they self-host this instead? Maybe, if that's feasible.