diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/config.xml b/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/config.xml
index a6984b449d944..b44691c0df963 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/config.xml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/config.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Disallow: /*SID=
             </header>
             <footer translate="copyright">
                 <copyright>Copyright &#169; 2013-present Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright>
+                <report_bugs>1</report_bugs>
             </footer>
         </design>
         <theme>
diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/di.xml b/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/di.xml
index 5ff82ce2db6f6..148267feeaad0 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/di.xml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Theme/etc/di.xml
@@ -214,6 +214,10 @@
                     <item name="path" xsi:type="string">design/footer/absolute_footer</item>
                     <item name="fieldset" xsi:type="string">other_settings/footer</item>
                 </item>
+                <item name="footer_report_bugs" xsi:type="array">
+                    <item name="path" xsi:type="string">design/footer/report_bugs</item>
+                    <item name="fieldset" xsi:type="string">other_settings/footer</item>
+                </item>
                 <item name="default_robots" xsi:type="array">
                     <item name="path" xsi:type="string">design/search_engine_robots/default_robots</item>
                     <item name="fieldset" xsi:type="string">other_settings/search_engine_robots</item>
diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Theme/i18n/en_US.csv b/app/code/Magento/Theme/i18n/en_US.csv
index db641b5da1f74..c8c586f0bc684 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Theme/i18n/en_US.csv
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Theme/i18n/en_US.csv
@@ -188,3 +188,4 @@ Settings,Settings
 ID,ID
 View,View
 Action,Action
+"Display Report Bugs Link","Display Report Bugs Link"
diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/adminhtml/ui_component/design_config_form.xml b/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/adminhtml/ui_component/design_config_form.xml
index 48adca3b1a12e..8d4580f90c7b1 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/adminhtml/ui_component/design_config_form.xml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/adminhtml/ui_component/design_config_form.xml
@@ -233,6 +233,20 @@
                     <dataScope>footer_copyright</dataScope>
                 </settings>
             </field>
+            <field name="footer_report_bugs" formElement="select">
+                <settings>
+                    <dataType>text</dataType>
+                    <label translate="true">Display Report Bugs Link</label>
+                    <dataScope>footer_report_bugs</dataScope>
+                </settings>
+                <formElements>
+                    <select>
+                        <settings>
+                            <options class="Magento\Config\Model\Config\Source\Yesno"/>
+                        </settings>
+                    </select>
+                </formElements>
+            </field>
         </fieldset>
         <fieldset name="search_engine_robots" sortOrder="120">
             <settings>
diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml b/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml
index 716341f5a64a4..c84222be19c3c 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
                     </arguments>
                 </block>
                 <block class="Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Footer" name="copyright" template="Magento_Theme::html/copyright.phtml"/>
-                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="report.bugs" template="Magento_Theme::html/bugreport.phtml" />
+                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="report.bugs" template="Magento_Theme::html/bugreport.phtml" ifconfig="design/footer/report_bugs"/>
             </container>
         </referenceContainer>
         <referenceContainer name="before.body.end">