> Production apps running on machines you don’t control?
Yes I have. Last time I did it via a dialogue that would pop-up asking the user to submit the information along with a text area that contained all the information being sent.
It's possible to get the information you want and respect your users.
Versus "screw you we're taking it anyway".
In some environments this is a massive compliance issue.
Unfortunately it's still opt-out, doesn't show what data it's sharing and looks to be purposefully misleading, so no info from me.
Wasn't it always that way? I remember those opt-in crash dialogs from a long time ago – I think they already had them in Netscape, or at least the (pre-Firefox) Mozilla suite.
I'd risk a guess that the average user doesn't have any problem with aggregate, anonymized data being collected for statistical and debugging purposes. A lot of people here on HN do and they like to extrapolate that to the whole society, but it's a stretch.
So add "it saved the company buckets of money" to the list of reasons this is a better approach.