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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And I could see the forest a whole lot better if all these trees weren't in the way.

It's not that one person is doing it it's that everyone is doing it.

The only way to stop everyone from doing it is to stop everyone from doing it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's pretty clear from my argument that I believe that it is entirely legitimate and unproblematic for everyone to collect basic data like system information and crashes. I'm not making an exception for Audacity, I'm broadly accepting this behaviour.