On reading this story I went to the OBS/Open Broadcaster Software website and I came across OBS's privacy statement/policy and to say that I was alarmed would be a gross understatement as it seems its developers can violate a user's privacy in just about every way possible.

After doing a quick scan of these posts I note that no one else has raised this matter.

I've not used OBS so I'd be interested to know from users about how much 'phoning home' the software actually does in practice.

Seems to me the effective extent of its privacy policy may be the limiting factor whether one would use OBS or not.