Comment 5 for bug 1623530

I agree that Apport popups are annoying and very user-unfriendly, but IMHO disabling it altogether is not the right approach, it might be better to show popups only when real user interaction is needed and available (for instance, in our case we have a lot of Apport popups on guest/public accounts that do not have enough privileges to actually send any data).

That being said, as far as the wiki states Apport is disabled by default in "stable" releases (I have a freshly installed Xenial LTS and still get around a dozen Apport popups everytime I start my computer, so maybe things changed since 2012...) [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How_to_enable_apport].