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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracki... by kstrauser on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:53PM (#26545929)
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.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracki... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:07PM (#26546155)
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.

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