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Many Windows applications used to do that. Just search for "crash report dialog" images and you'll find many of them.

Firefox does it too. And it keeps a log of past crashes on about:crashes where you can decide which ones to submit.



Many versions of Android do the same (although the details may differ, that's the beauty and the curse of open source). After crashing a (on some devices, only after a few times), you get a popup that says something like "<app name> appears to stop unexpectedly, would you like to report this to the developer?"

If you click on the details button, you can see almost everything outside of pure hexdumps of RAM.

There's no need for automatic sample submission if you respect your users' privacy.




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