Agreed. This comment section is bizarre for HN. It's sort of like getting scared that "Prometheus" collects "metrics". Or that "Kafka" tracks "events".
These aren't scary things.
These aren't scary things.
From reading the OpenTelemetry site, that doesn't seem to be their main, stated purpose, but thefounder's post in another part of the thread leads me to think it may, in fact, see that kind of use, too.
[EDIT] damn, sorry, downvoters, for explaining the reason this is getting knee-jerk negative reactions from people, when someone expressed confusion about it. Again, I think the main reason is the word used, and what it's mostly associated with now, among some folks.
It's like being afraid your browser profiler is being used to spy on you. Could it do that? Sure. but there are so many easier ways to accomplish the same task.
[EDIT] and, especially, that's why they're jumping to the conclusion that github is gearing up to do more spying on its users, which is the part that I think people are bothered by, not the existence of this software package.