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Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

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Re: Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

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They never did that. “Breaking” implies it was ever there to begin with.

The result is exactly the same.

Whether it is or not, it’s fundamentally useful to use accurate language or people will dismiss your underlying point because of the dishonest premise.

Re: Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

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The result is exactly the same.

Whether it is or not, it’s fundamentally useful to use accurate language or people will dismiss your underlying point because of the dishonest premise.

It's fundamentally useless to nitpick like that and accuse someone of dishonesty for glancing over irrelevant details.

Re: Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

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twitter did the same thing to me, but worse. they let me create an account and then locked it and wanted to know my phone number before they would unlock it. I can't even go delete it without giving them personal information.

Yeah, I was contemplating to maybe start a Twitter account, but didn't because of that. They do this pretty much on every account creation after a couple of hours, I guess so that you'd have some time to get on the hook. I'm kinda used to that and accepted that, apparently, I will never use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Google account because of that. Whatever, I don't care. What was really infuriating, though, is…

I hear that. I have a Google account because I still use some Google services and it isn't tied to any social media nonsense unless you count YouTube.

For twitter I just favorite the few people I want to follow.

Surprisingly my instagram account has no personal information and haven't had any issues but I don't know why.

Re: Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

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I think one of the key differentiators is that an Apple ID isn’t required to use an iPhone. There are other differences, but I believe this is the main relevant one.

Only to use non-Apple apps on an iPhone since you can only install things tied to the Apple App Store.

Quest 2 is just a brick without FB account meanwhile iPhone has Safari and other apps.

Re: Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

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Tangentially related: newly-created Facebook accounts are a whole lot harder to keep up these days if you’re just using them for a single purpose, like following events. I created an account last year to get more socially involved in my community but I didn’t want to post any personal information and my account kept getting disabled unless I added pictures and filled out certain sections of my profile. Not sure if it…

I don't use FB personally, but I needed access to Business Manager for some client work so I created an account using my work email and tried to sign up for BM. They immediately locked the account, asked for a copy of my ID, and then permanently banned that account after I provided it . I have no idea why, there's no mechanism for appeal, and I can't even submit a request to have the image of my ID removed because th…

Facebook is the new catch 22
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