Audacity Is Now A Possible Spyware, Remove It ASAP. he parent company is a multi-national company and it has been trying to start a data-collection mechanism in the software. While Audacity is nothing more than a desktop program, its developers want to make it phone home with various data taken...

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[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Just about every web site you visit, app and program you install on your PC or phone is doing data-collection. Even back in windows 98 it had it.

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But with some time and dedication you can even unbug your android device. I'm doing this with my devices now for some time. My goal is to ungoogolize my world and then maybe write down somewhere how it can be done without loosing to much usability.

That's the dilemma between these.

[–]Pis-dur[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've used Disroot for getting rid of Google account. Now I have contacts, tasks, notes, etc. synchronised there. Just look it up.