@orekix @hideki yeah it got bought a while ago and they new company added in telemetry and said they would work with the alphabet boys to give them info about who is using the program. Something along those lines.

A bunch of forks that removed that cropped up but none have been updated in a while BECAUSE...

Audacity changed course and made the telemetry opt-in (under the guise of "providing statistics to improve the software" of course).

So now that you can just not have to worry about that stuff, people can still use audacity and be fine. If you're really paranoid, block it in your firewall.