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Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by sam0x17 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:25PM (#24779843)
I have an active FB account, but I would never use it to log in to anything other than FB via a sandboxed browser profile, and if I had to, I wouldn't use that service.
Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by munk-a on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:27PM (#24779874)
Yea - I'd be unwilling to use Oculus unless I could specifically tie it to a fake FB account (or no account at all). I barely use my FB account but I never want gaming integrated with social media in a manner I can't control simply due to personal preference and privacy.
Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by karmakaze on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:40PM (#24780655)
I thought about using a fake, Oculus-only account but that's a false sense of separation as FB would see connections from my accounts coming from the same source IP unless I was going to separate them via anonymizing proxy.
Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by withinboredom on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:33PM (#24783449)
How is that different from roommates/family that share a computer?
Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by munk-a on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:56PM (#24792383)
We have smartphones now with a pretty wide rollout - I wouldn't be surprised if people that legitimately all share the same computer do have problems getting flags on their account from facebook.

Honestly though, the real answer is who knows - it's entirely proprietary information and all we can do on the outside is observe the fact that is does seem to be a pretty flawed detection system and guess at why that is. Does facebook use sentiment analysis of posts or post frequency to ban users they think are fake? Do they look for similar content of posts from different users to try and detect troll farms? I don't know and FB really doesn't want to talk about it.

Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by fomine3 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:46PM (#24796553)
Anyway I need to buy some games from Oculus Store so I should provide real information. So I believe that fake information account isn't an option.