audacity isn't spyware omg
they had planned on doing opt-out telemetry and that was shot down basically immediately 3 years ago. it's default opt-in now and if you turn it on it isn't like, logging keystrokes or anything lol. i'm probably still gonna switch to a fork to avoid the cloud storage whatever thing they're putting in, but audacity is not stealing any meaningful data. it's open source, go look for yourself