The news that Muse was pouring money into the project, caught everybody off-guard.

People on the Audacity forum expressed some doubts about telemetry and the decision to have it default "off" was taken fast.

No problem, I'd think.

Then some people on Reddit found out Muse doesn't have a privacy statement. Muse is pretty new. So to counter, Muse copied some privacy statement...

That wasn't enough for the redditeers. The wording was wrong. Of course, it's legalese.

Apple, Google and a lot of other privacy statements are a lot worse. Not to mention FB.

Audacity certainly isn't spyware. Let's give Muse some time to adjust. The current developers badly need help. And I can't think of a better partner.

The damage is done. Let's hope this doesn't hurt long-time relations between current and future devs.

Audacity isn't a DAW. It's hard to compare. It's an editor.

For me, the biggest limitation is that it only allows stereo output for monitoring. However, if you are fi a narrator and only need one channel for input, Audacity is probably your best choice, as it is also far less complex than, fi Reaper. And it's tools for ACX compliance are second to none. No other DAW even comes close.