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Oculus today announced a change to its login policy. Starting this fall, everyone on Oculus will have to have a Facebook account in order to use their device. Oculus fans have been dreading since the company was purchased.
@Burk Between this and Instagram DMs merging with Messenger, I’m so glad I ditched everything Facebook has ever touched. What a desperate scheme to expand their membership.
@Burk “If you’re an existing user and choose not to merge your accounts, you can continue using your Oculus account for two years.” By that time it’ll be time for something new anyway :)
@jack That at least gives a little more time to leave Oculus entirely! But it’s facebook so they will say that now to not have mass exits, and then change the TOS whenever they feel like it without warning. I have been lying to myself (like Instagram users) for too long that it’s ok because it isn’t “Facebook Proper”.. It’s all Facebook.
@simonwoods @Burk I suspect that much of the outrage is due to the new requirement of having a Facebook account and being forced to use it to log in. I don’t use FB, so this will render my Oculus useless to me. But yeah, I don’t pretend that there’s much privacy benefit to Oculus vs Facebook accounts though.
@jack @simonwoods For sure, I definitely never assumed any privacy after being acquired by zuck, quite the opposite. The issue is being locked out of hardware by putting it behind artifical limitation of an account that wasn’t initially required. It was all of course going to happen this way, but you always secretly hope it wouldn’t. 🤷‍♂️