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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by spike021 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:59PM (#24202771)
Is this confirmed? I made a second account at one point with a new email and have had zero issues with both. Although I rarely log into the first one, maybe once a month or so.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by 0xdeadb00f on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:07PM (#24204922)
Facebook has banned multiple burner account of mine, so I suppose it is confirmed.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by aspaceman on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:15PM (#24203034)
It's still connected to the graph if you have another account accessed from the same IP. They know there's a connection from that account to yours.

Don't create a burner account. Facebook's TOS is to lock burners and require an ID to unlock, so you'd be locking all your games out of access.

Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by spike021 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:30PM (#24203219)
Again, I've had and technically logged into both accounts concurrently for at least the past 3-5 years. So unless this only applies to new accounts, I have yet to have either one locked out.

That's why I was wondering if it's officially confirmed somewhere.

Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by vmception on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:55PM (#24203558)
This isn’t a 3-5 year old phenomenon.

I don’t think there are many people that are cognizant in how to break their social graph.

I’ve seen a few other hackernews comments corroborating it over the past year. But it isn't a common case so Facebook gets away with it.

Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by R0b0t1 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:37PM (#24204645)
You can sue them. I think this is what it will take. I've got an orphaned GOG account that they are not responding to me about, and I am definitely entitled to access those games.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by aspaceman on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:39PM (#24205186)
True. It's all within your rights. I'm just trying to say they really don't like burners and won't make it easy to go that route. (If I had to guess)
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by cobbzilla on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:14PM (#24206501)
You sue; they restore access to moot the lawsuit, but then tie your real info listed on the suit to your account, no longer making it anonymous. Win-win? /sarc
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by R0b0t1 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:25AM (#24210676)
No, you could probably sue for access that does not need an account esp. if they have gravely changed the terms since you signed up.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by Arnavion on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:25PM (#24203163)
They're going to lose their games if they don't make any account anyway. So if they feel strongly about not making a proper account, they might as well try with a burner one and see how long it lasts?