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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by joshspankit on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:25AM (#27746905)
In our current societies, this is how you push for a more general solution:

Claw back the privacy on high-profile applications, get an amount of attention that’s significant enough to either lead the application to change or for the other fork to become the go-to. This reminds other companies that people do care and that the cost of tracking is in taking privacy from users who then leave when they can.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by acdha on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:33AM (#27747575)
I value privacy but version numbers seems like an odd place to make that stand since it’s one of the least unique bits of information, especially in this century where automatic updates are increasingly the norm.
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