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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by ViViDboarder on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:35AM (#24207453)
This same thing just happened to Belkin WeMo. Looking forward to the class action.

I bought a bunch of switches because the offered local control and no account needed, now an account is required to set up anything new and local control is apparently going away. I’m now wary of anything that needs a proprietary app at all which would give them the ability to do this in the first place.

Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by StavrosK on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:33AM (#24207774)
I can recommend Sonoff switches and any bulb that runs ESP8266, you can usually easily flash those with open source firmware. I do it when I receive them, and they've been rock solid.