After taking over MuseScore and introducing most, if not all, of the dark patterns mentioned by the article, he took over Audacity and tried to spy on users, berating and banning people on the PR and followup discussions for expressing anger.
I have had absolutely nothing to do with the design of MuseScore.com.
I was hired to work on the open source notation app, which is free - meaning users can't subscribe to anything, so it isn't possible for me to have instituted anything like these patterns.
We also never put anything in Audacity to 'spy' on users. That's verifiably untrue because the app is open source and anyone can check the code to verify it. The actual thing people were irritated by was our attempt to include opt-in telemetry, which is a pretty significantly different thing to spyware. Users rebelled against the idea, so we didn't include it.
