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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by kelnos on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:39PM (#24204070)
How is that different from an Oculus account, though? FB could keep the accounts separate but still funnel data in from Oculus to FB (as I'm sure they'd already been doing). If you create a throwaway FB account just for your Oculus device, the only material difference is which DB the entry is in.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by bluntfang on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:27PM (#24204548)
when you sign up to facebook i bet their ToS is much different than Oculus'
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by codezero on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:32PM (#24204602)
That's my point around changing the pipes. I think it's still meaningfully different though, because there are probably some first party benefits of going directly through FB, but that's speculation.
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