It's a tough thing to balance, but generally, bringing in someone's personal details as ammunition in an internet argument is not ok on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). I'm not saying those are never relevant, but the default impact of doing this is to poison discussion so badly that the default bias has to be "don't do it". Certainly you should not be doing it as part of a flamewar post, which your comments in this thread have been. We want curious conversation here, not people cross examining each other.
I'm not disagreeing with you about the underlying issue—there's an argument to be made that the kind of "publishing" that Google/Chrome does here is is really a way of obscuring it from the majority of users, and so on. HN commenters are certainly welcome to make that kind of argument. But we need you to err on the side of not posting in the flamewar style. If I see a commenter posting in the flamewar style and then also bringing in someone's personal details as ammunition, it's no longer a tough-thing-to-balance, it's just out of line.
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
I'm not disagreeing with you about the underlying issue—there's an argument to be made that the kind of "publishing" that Google/Chrome does here is is really a way of obscuring it from the majority of users, and so on. HN commenters are certainly welcome to make that kind of argument. But we need you to err on the side of not posting in the flamewar style. If I see a commenter posting in the flamewar style and then also bringing in someone's personal details as ammunition, it's no longer a tough-thing-to-balance, it's just out of line.
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html