“Trust” as in: trust it enough to run it on your machine.

(And assuming that you can’t understand code yourself)

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    6 days ago

    If there’s no alternative that has the feature set that software has, the alternatives are ultimately worse, and/or I cannot find a fork from another less egregious dev, then it’s like I’d have any other choice if I need the software. If I don’t need the software, good chance I might just stop using it and just uninstall.

    It’s why back when I heard that the people in charge of Audacity, back a few years ago, had potential plans on adding telemetry, I stopped using it all together. Of course I kinda moved back because, as far as I know, all the forks are basically dead and the team went back on those plans due to community uproar. Now I just keep it unable to connect via firewall to be safe.