No one’s asking me to, but I’d testify that I absolutely didn’t know the implications back when I had share buttons on my site. It was a fun thing that almost everyone was doing, for the sole intention of making it more convenient for visitors to share my content that they enjoyed. Period. It absolutely wasn’t so that I could make it easy for FB and friends to track my visitors.

It all seems so obvious in retrospect, but at the time there wasn’t a lot of pushback from people explaining why it was a terrible idea.

Imagine Mark Zuckerberg saying something like:

You were stupid enough to not devine my intentions 10 years ago, so now I think the US Supreme Court should decide you are that stupid now too.

> whether the companies were cognizant of the implications of adding Facebook scripts to their site.

I’m inclined to believe Backblaze were not cognisant of the implications of adding Facebook scripts to their site, given the speedy (~12hr) turnaround on resolving once brought to their attention.

If tech companies are unaware, what are the odds that the majority of other companies are?

Discussion from here earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019

The lawsuit only applies to 2011, Although in Backblaze's case it looks like a situation where their web team made a mistake building a custom Facebook tracking pixel. They are 100% intending to send tracking information to Facebook.