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You are never going to get broad adoption if you require someone to sign up to use something locally. Full stop. People who will install any software that comes across Hacker news are going to pause the moment you make them sign up to use a local application.

All of the explanations about how it's not intrusive and only collects X, Y, or Z doesn't matter. There are many apps I use that send crash reporting data, and the only time they do that is when they crash and then they ask me if it's ok. I don't have to sign up to do that.