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by LordDragonfang 42 days ago
> That's one I have not heard before

No offense, but if that's the case, you are very new to the discussion. It's been pretty well-documented that opt-out provides orders of magnitude more useful reports than opt-in.

For the best example: Factorio, a game with an almost-exclusively-technical playerbase and extremely well-regarded and community-friendly dev team, which already had a ton of people writing good bug reports on the forums, [fixed 12 crash-causing bugs](https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-231) within two days after making crash reports automatic and opt-in.

And if it has that much impact for Factorio, you can imagine how much bigger the impact is for non-technical software.