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Comment by romanovcode | Hacker News Reader

If you are so against telemetry and google analytics specifically maybe you should remove it from your own site?[0]

I'm not the author of the blog post. I think you're comparing apples and oranges, also this kind of reasoning is an example of "tu quoque" logical fallacy.

> tu quoque

No, this is not that. The "tu quoque" logical fallacy follows this pattern (from Wikipedia):

   Person A makes claim X.
   Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
   Therefore X is false.[2]

They are not saying their claim is false. They're saying that if they care so much, why are they subjecting their users to tracking that they are unable to opt out of?

I've struggled with this before on this site. People love to pull out fallacies. But they forget that fallacies are only fallacies if they are used as a counterargument. And even when they are used in such a way, the other side then has to deal with fallacy fallacy. You can't immediately discredit an argument just because it contains a fallacy.

It wasn't stated explicitly. The assumption that I made was it related to the discussion about validity of the topic. Assumptions can be misleading but human language operates in a context. Formally, should the context be taken out, to operate only on the words of the post - you're right - it is not "tu quoque".

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