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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by tester756 on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:14PM (#27742304)
>Of course it should be disabled by default, and it would never be uploaded.

I believe when you make crash reports / telemetry disabled by default then you lose a lot of reports,

thus make your life harder as a developer that wants to deliver high quality solution for as many OSes, hardwares, configurations, blabla.

I don't have problem that e.g my IDE would report how many files and lines of code my project has, because it may allow devs to make better decisions.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by gizdan on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:15PM (#27742714)
> I believe when you make crash reports / telemetry disabled by default then you lose a lot of reports,

Perhaps I should have been clearer. I think something similar to Firefox's crash reports. If a crash happens, prompt the user and show them the report, and finally, let them decide. Perhaps even take out the networking features and open the default client with an attachment or a path of the report so they can be attached to a github issue.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by detaro on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:17PM (#27742732)
> Perhaps I should have been clearer. I think something similar to Firefox's crash reports. If a crash happens, prompt the user and show them the report, and finally, let them decide.

So, like Audacity?

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