Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

Post by dylan604 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

soco wrote: post #39

dylan604 wrote: post #26

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This is something that has just never sat well with me. How exactly will the union provide this insurance? That insurance isn't free, so paid for by member dues? How many members are required to be able to afford the payout for just one member? How about the other services unions are touted as being able to provide? They all come from the same dues? I know that unions will put money into investment funds to attempt t…

Simple idea: look how other unions work, and in other countries as well. The wheel has already been invented.

Post by iamnothere » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

woodrowbarlow wrote: post #45

LadyCailin wrote: post #38

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That’s what licensing is for, not unions.

i don't believe that software development should require a license. imagine having to get board-licensed to download gcc; therein lies the death of free software and owning your devices.

Post by soco » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #52

soco wrote: post #39

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Simple idea: look how other unions work, and in other countries as well. The wheel has already been invented.

You can say that about a lot of things. The car was already invented, but so many new car companies struggle. Just because a thing exists does not mean someone else can come along to immediately become successful with thing.

Post by soco » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #57

soco wrote: post #56

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The question as I took it was "I can't imagine how this can work". Interpreting it as anything else is defeatism and I won't entertain that.

It's not defeatism. It's doing the research to avoid unnecessary failure from over ambitiousness getting in the way of doing something the right way. This isn't a Show HN situation where you go and get some VC funding and yolo your way through it. This is something that if it's not done right it could have a greater blast radius than some VC funded startup shutting down with a "What we've learned" blog post.

Post by istumbler » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

Retr0id wrote: post #48

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #4

> Meta must face a lawsuit alleging that it secretly tracked Android users' browsing activity on mobile websites that embedded Meta's analytics pixel, and linked that activity to users' identities, a federal judge ruled Monday. > The decision, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco, grew out of a class-action complaint initially brought last June by California resident Devin Rose (and later joi…

Not at all to defend Meta but "a feature that allows software developers to test applications" is a dubious definition of localhost. I also can't come up with a better one.