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Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by nixpulvis »

jensensbutton wrote: post #47
nixpulvis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the fuck do I need to log into my monitor?! it's bad enough the driver demands a running application which tries to sell me shit and pushes me into a place I don't want to be at all. It's literally hijacking my computer.

You log into an ipad. What's the difference?

I do not own an iPad. Also... do you really have to? I haven't used an iOS in a little bit now.

Apple is hardly the model for technology we should be using these days. Their walled garden has rotten fruit and it doesn't even get you drunk, you simply fall ill.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by micromacrofoot »

jensensbutton wrote: post #47
nixpulvis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the fuck do I need to log into my monitor?! it's bad enough the driver demands a running application which tries to sell me shit and pushes me into a place I don't want to be at all. It's literally hijacking my computer.

You log into an ipad. What's the difference?

A massive network of cross-site tracking and a terrible track record for protecting personal information.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by theknocker »

willis936 wrote: post #28

It begs the question: if they host the social media account and VR account and can reliably identify / link them on their end, and the laws and terms allow them to do so, does it really matter if they’re different accounts? It's still a win if you don't have a facebook account. For everyone else: I would assume that they will identify your accounts reliably.

This is not what begs the question means.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by darrenf »

supermatt wrote: post #13

Facebook account will become meta account. Oculus will transition to meta account. There will be no difference.

UploadVR asked Andrew Bosworth directly. https://uploadvr.com/quest-2-unlinking-facebook-accounts/

Quote: We asked Bosworth directly if we could unlink and delete our Facebook accounts from Quest and still keep our software purchases, to which he simply replied: “Yup”.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

loeg wrote: post #18
supermatt wrote: post #13

Facebook account will become meta account. Oculus will transition to meta account. There will be no difference.

No, this would be an Oculus-specific account. There are enough legitimate criticisms of Facebook that we don't have to go around inventing false ones. Edited to cite the announcement transcript[1]: > And as we’ve focused more on work, and frankly, as we’ve heard your feedback more broadly, we’re on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account . > ... I know this is a b…

Would Facebook be physically prevented from ever accessing or linking to data on the Metafacebookulus account, ad vice versa?

If not, sounds like a Facebook account by another name.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by [deleted] »

jensensbutton wrote: post #47
nixpulvis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the fuck do I need to log into my monitor?! it's bad enough the driver demands a running application which tries to sell me shit and pushes me into a place I don't want to be at all. It's literally hijacking my computer.

You log into an ipad. What's the difference?

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Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by micromacrofoot »

piva00 wrote: post #26
loeg wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transcript[1]: > And as we’ve focused more on work, and frankly, as we’ve heard your feedback more broadly, we’re on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account . > ... I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their social media profile linked to all these other experiences. To me this strongly suggests that it is a separate account, and is no…

I'd love if they clarified if not being directly linked to a Facebook account would mean it's not being harvested and shadow profiling the user to end up linking to whatever is their definition of a "person" in their ad systems. This corporate-speak makes me very cynical and I hate it but given FB's history I would like a completely clear statement that data harvested from Oculus is not immediately linked to an ident…

Unless it's part of some legally binding document I wouldn't trust it anyway. Despite the name change they're still Facebook. Data harvesting is their business.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by playpause »

nixpulvis wrote: post #43
loeg wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, this would be an Oculus-specific account. There are enough legitimate criticisms of Facebook that we don't have to go around inventing false ones. Edited to cite the announcement transcript[1]: > And as we’ve focused more on work, and frankly, as we’ve heard your feedback more broadly, we’re on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account . > ... I know this is a b…

Why the fuck do I need to log into my monitor?! it's bad enough the driver demands a running application which tries to sell me shit and pushes me into a place I don't want to be at all. It's literally hijacking my computer.

The Oculus isn’t just a monitor, it’s a complete computer system with its own OS. If you just want a VR headset that is purely a monitor, buy one of those.

Re: Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

jensensbutton wrote: post #47
nixpulvis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the fuck do I need to log into my monitor?! it's bad enough the driver demands a running application which tries to sell me shit and pushes me into a place I don't want to be at all. It's literally hijacking my computer.

You log into an ipad. What's the difference?

I don't own an iPad, but I flashed my tablet with an Android Open Source Project ROM so that I have the option to not send data to anybody I don't want to.

Is Facebook planning to let us do this? Or are they just changing the brand logo on the login page for their required login?

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