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And HN still has the view websites should collect and store every morsel of data about every visitor because nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

Quite the opposite. The HN crowd is very privacy-conscientious.

Any post about the gdpr has dozens of googlers saying how awful it is they can’t just capture every bit of data they want from visitors.

Of course, since they directly profit from violating people’s privacy, but Google is not HN.