You're not going to win this "fight" on HN, I've been here for years. People here are convinced that every piece of data being collected is a moral evil.

They'll vaguely wave at things like DNS logs or server IP logs, and always assume that everything is always feeding huge tracking machines at big companies. They'll mix up tracking used for logs with tracking used for ads with tracking used to improve the product. There's no real understanding of what cohort sizes or signals are needed to make tracking meaningful. It's a mess.

IMO it's good to be sensitive about the data we send and hold tech companies accountable for how much data they take. I've also worked on big tech teams that collect data. But the arguments here are always so black-and-white that they don't make any meaningful point.

I wasn't making an argument about privacy with that statement. I said that if certain knowledge is valuable to you, then visualizations of that data would be valuable. Some people like to be watched and controlled similarly to how some people want to be ruled by rulers. I accept that as human nature. If you are watched by someone in a greater power position who wants power over you, do you think this gives them more control or power over you or not?