FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization

Re:FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer servic... by throwaway0104 on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:44PM (#28044852)

Any new account can use Facebook for 24 hours before email verification becomes required. This is a huge issue for any email address not linked to a Facebook account. Facebook will happily leak the social graph of that address's shadow profile (e.g. in the "suggested friends" list), and let anyone impersonate it, for 24h.

It happened to me. Those 24h were no fun.

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Re:FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer servic... by tlrobinson on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:44PM (#28045201)

Well that’ll teach you to not have a Facebook account /s

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Re:FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer servic... by pizza on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:08PM (#28044981)

Wow, incredible footgun you got there, Facebook

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Re:FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer servic... by scbrg on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @02:11AM (#28046169)

Footguns are OK as long as they're pointed at other people's feet.

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Re:FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer servic... by Firehawke on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:35PM (#28045148)

Should be a footgun, but they've never really been penalized for things like that.

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