Comment 6 for bug 1623530

The crash reports which apport is notifying users about are going to errors.ubuntu.com for stable (non-development) releases of Ubuntu. This information is then aggregated for developers so that we know which crashes are affecting the most users and can then prioritize crashes. Without the crashes being reported we only have crash reports in Launchpad as an input and those are a subsample of the real crashes because it is more work for people to report them and with everyone reporting crashes we can see issues about packages not everyone installs.

Instead of just disabling apport, I'd suggest installing the apport-noui package so that users do not receive a pop-up regarding the crash reports and they are just automatically sent to errors.ubuntu.com. That being said keep in mind it is possible for crash reports to contain sensitive information, and that's why we don't install apport-noui automatically.