Re:Oculus Quest 2
by reader_mode on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:46PM
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>That'll get infuriating very quickly.
And as soon it does I stop using it.
As for reverse engineering my preferences I'm not sure I care honestly - if it means ads I get are more relevant it might even be a good thing.
I don't know I just don't feel there's a lot of value in profiling me specifically and it probably only helps them in aggregate anyway.
I'm not against dats privacy, but if it gets me superior hardware at a better price point I don't see the downside.
I'm much more bothered by wall garden platform like Apple imposing Apple tax and will slowly roll off Apple devices.
> I don't know I just don't feel there's a lot of value in profiling me specifically
Nah; only a few dollars a (time period), really.
Multiply that by all their customers and you have a lot of money coming in from the creepy tracking.
They'll also know what gets your attention, what doesn't… unless you can control your saccades, that'll leak a lot of information about your mind-state while viewing Facebook-controlled media. They could, if they wanted to, blackbox reverse-engineer bits of you via controlled-input attacks.
VR headsets are basically the most creepy thing they could be tracking my behaviour with – perhaps second to the smartphone, since at least I can take off the VR headset.