[cdelsolar]

After I added OTel to an open source project I run, I spent a bit of time arguing with someone about telemetry - they kept saying they didn't opt in and that we need to inform our users about it, etc., and I kept saying no, that's not the same type of telemetry. I wonder how common this misconception is.

[cogman10]

This is the second time I've seen this misconception come up in HN and I've definitely seen it in Reddit at least once.

[remram]

OpenTracing was a much clearer name, especially for those of us who really don't care about doing logging or metrics through OTel.