[kelnos]

Ignorance is no excuse. Don't dump loads of third-party JS onto your site without understanding what it does. That's negligence.

If Facebook misrepresented what the code (or whatever) Patreon included was going to do, sure, ok, fair. But then in that case Facebook should be the target of the suit. (Unclear who should sue whom, though... users sue Patreon and Patreon sues Facebook? Users sue Facebook directly?)

[dumbledoren]

> JS onto your site without understanding what it does. That's negligence

Everybody understood what it did. It was legal at the time. Then it was made illegal. The lawsuit literally retroactively includes the period in which it was legal.

[ndriscoll]

Seems that the lawsuit is predicated on the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act and that the plaintiffs are arguing it was never legal.

[qingcharles]

Are there any cases litigated to trial on this? This case avoids trial by settling, for better or worse.