It certainly is. And every time a program is forced to have the crash reporting be opt-in because of the region I live in, I sing Ode to Joy. Don't get me wrong I'm no invasive telemetry enthusiast.
But I wouldn't mind being _able_ to make that choice for some projects I trust. If it were up to me, Linux maintainers would be looking at enough (opted-in) user stacktraces in their code that they'd start thinking of syzbot* fondly.
(* Fuzzer that Linux maintainers love to complain about due to the deluge of rare bugs and crashes it drops on them)
A number of Linux distros and software have automated bug reporting tools, they just tend to require an explicit confirmation before submittingn anything.
E.g. there's Ubuntu's Apport, Fedora's ABRT, KDE's Dr. Konqi.
I haven't read the privacy policy (who does?) But I am willing to bet that it doesn't restrict MS to these purposes and in fact allows them to do whatever they want for any reason.
>So devs can see what I've been upto on my own computer.
If you consent to sharing the error with Microsoft. It may contain some information about what was running to assist with finding the issue. There is a strict privacy policy for what this data is allowed to be used for.
>I assume the problem is the default is "send" rather than "don't send"?
But I wouldn't mind being _able_ to make that choice for some projects I trust. If it were up to me, Linux maintainers would be looking at enough (opted-in) user stacktraces in their code that they'd start thinking of syzbot* fondly.
(* Fuzzer that Linux maintainers love to complain about due to the deluge of rare bugs and crashes it drops on them)