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what. the. hell
Clairement crevée
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DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
@Claire this reeks of being the setup for the phase 2 changes which will probably add some cloud storage feature or something - it's a pretty blatant and telling move at this point 
Darius Kazemi
@djsundog @Claire not necessarily -- the fact that they redid their privacy policy to include collection of probably-non-identifying app analytics means that they would either need to file massive amounts of paperwork to comply with the US law known as COPPA *or* they would have to put in the "don't use this if you are under 13" disclaimer for plausible deniability
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
Darius Kazemi
@djsundog @Claire having been on the corporate side of this, I am almost completely certain that what happened was: acquisition happened, new corporate owner's lawyers looked at their privacy policy, red flagged the lack of COPPA protection since the app does a nonzero amount of data collection, then they added it in the interest of being safe rather than sorry. (Just noting I am also dismayed at the acquisition, I think Audacity has been doing great for 20 years slowly improving all the time.)
ermahkrawn!
As another reference point, I saw this sort of a difference in the process of signing up for two Minecraft accounts in the household: One before Microsoft took over, one after. I recognized at the time of the second one that they were doing it the "right" but more complicated way @darius alludes to above. (ObFOSS: Haven't played Minecraft since I learned Mineclone 2 in Minetest is a thing)
Sleepy Chris
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it's not a social media thing it's an audio editor