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- Off topic: I wonder how hard it is to poison this type of data gathering?by throwa356262
- A timely question. Hopefully someone will share the recent Order and Third Amended Complaint
Since that discussion in 2025
Rose v Meta was consolidated with some other privacy cases against Meta
A first amended complaint was filed,^1 Google was added as a defendant
Defendants motion to dismiss was denied
A third amended complaint was filed on Monday
Here are the PDFs
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1st amended complaint
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
Meta motion to dismiss
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
Google motion to dismiss
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
Plaintiffs response
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
Meta reply
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
Google reply
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
Order
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https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/csologin/login.jsf?pscCourt...
2nd amended complaint
(Payment required)
https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/csologin/login.jsf?pscCourt...
- This actually inspired me recently to create Pal Pipe for Android- https://gitlab.com/not_john/palpipeby 0john
- The May 11, 2026 Order on defendants' Motion to Dismiss has now been uploaded to the Internet Archive
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
No claims were dismissed without leave to amend
Defendants have failed to stop this litigation from going forward
Expect a settlement before this moves into discovery
The Court's understanding of "localhost" in this Order may be less than complete but if this litigation progresses further and experts are retained then that could change
- I've recently been exploring options for allowing web apps to access LAN services. For example, a WebDAV server so you can watch local videos in the app without streaming them through a server.
You can actually achieve a form of discovery if your service registers itself using mDNS for something like `service.local`. Browsers will allow direct navigation/redirection to `http://service.local`, but they'll block any fetch/XHR requests due to mixed content rules, even if you have CORS configured. And of course you can't get a cert for `.local` domains.
Newer things like Chrome's LNA[0] are actually really helpful, because (for now at least) if the user grants the permission, fetch/XHR will go through, but you'll get a bunch of mixed content warnings in the console.
It seems like the only way to fully support this use case currently is with WebRTC, which is pretty sad.
by apitman - Chrome and Firefox have deployed / are deploying local-network-access which prompts the user when apps try this.by mozvalentin
- Looks like they stopped doing it
> UPDATE: As of June 3rd 7:45 CEST, Meta/Facebook Pixel script is no longer sending any packets or requests to localhost. The code responsible for sending the _fbp cookie has been almost completely removed. Yandex has also stopped the practice we describe below.
by KomoD - > 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 joined by other Android users).
> Rose alleged that between September 2024 and June 2025, Meta exploited Android's localhost -- a feature that allows software developers to test applications -- to connect users’ mobile web browsing to their Facebook and Instagram profiles.
May 12, 2026