[tux3]

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)

[account42]

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.