Remove Mandatory Facebook Login!
Remove Mandatory Facebook login in order to accept friend requests and use the Oculus app. I have never had Facebook nor do i want it. I just want to play vr. I don’t want to have to have facebook to enjoy my 500$ Virtual Reality Headset with my friends.
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jetpack-toast
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To everyone here,
I don't think anyone here really understands how these things work and why this will never go anywhere. Please allow me to explain a few points.
1. People are buying out the Quest 2 rapidly. Most people do not mind linking up (or creating) their Facebook account to use it. We are the minorities in this so our voices really don't make a difference.
2. Selling your Quest or Quest 2 over this requirement WILL DO NOTHING to stop this. Whoever buys your device will link up their Facebook and your dear "friend" Mark Zuckerberg will still mine their data. He'll make the money off of you, or whoever you sell your device to.
3. If you've lost tens, hundreds, or even thousands of dollars over losing access to your games, Zuckerberg and the Facebook crowd DO NOT CARE. It's pretty obvious in the way they are handling all of this. When you are literally worth over $100 billion, a few thousand is nothing.
4. The Quest 2 is dirt cheap (given the high-end specs) for a reason. I'm willing to bet the purchase price is equal to, or even a bit below the manufacturing costs. Why? Because Facebook will make a lot more money from people as soon as they link up their Facebook accounts. This also puts the Quest 2 in a position where nobody will be able to beat the price for the given specs. They are successfully cornering the market and stomping out any current or future competition by doing this. It's a monopolistic practice that is actually illegal, but it seems nobody is doing anything about it.
Infuriated yet? I know I am! So what can you do to start fighting back? If everybody did the following, these companies wouldn't have quite the power they do today:
1. DELETE your Facebook account. Deactivating your account is NOT the same thing. When you are deactivated, they can, and do, still collect your data from third parties and sell it. I've seen a small subset of how this works, and trust me, the data is scary (think credit card/bank information). They get a LOT more than what you give.
2. Use a privacy-based browser. I personally use Firefox and it blocks all the Facebook and other social media trackers. There are a bunch of other privacy-based browsers out there as well.
3. Don't purchase/use anymore Facebook owned products. This includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus, Portal, and all those listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook
4. Support the good, dump the trash. There are many other options for social media out there that aren't nearly as evil as Facebook. Ever heard of Diaspora? How about the open-source Telegram messenger? What about ProtonMail? Perhaps give them a shot if you're itching for social media.
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Will gladly buy a new headst (rift owner) once the FB stuff is lifted.
Other wise, buying from a competitor.
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Anonymous
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i will never purchase an Oculus as long as this psychotic and extortionist Facebook login is required with it. Greedy nonsense, yall overplayed your hand and you look stupid.
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Anonymous
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I just want to play VR and it's wrong that they have to put my personal information on it.
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mark zuckerburg
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I dont care if you raise the price just i dont want you having my identity and i dont was anyone else having it too. if i could use facebook without my real name and dont have to send drivers licence through i would use your service.
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Anonymous
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I was ready to purchase this on the spot until I found out about the facebook mandatory requirements. I do not want the people associated with my vr gaming to associate me with my political views nor would I want them associated with my likes and dislikes. Now, if facebook would allow me to have multiple accounts where I am not required to give my DNA to open any account, I would have less of a problem. The only info I don't mind giving is my credit card number and the required info to make purchases.
As for having someone search a profile and discover that I hold political view X while I play game Y and I happen to like TV show Z.... this is enough to get some people shot in some countries or just lose a job in the most liberated countries on planet Earth.
Secondly, I plan on allowing family members to use the device, and I certainly don't want to have people wonder why I play something with rainbow unicorns and ****** shooting on alien worlds while I discuss the finer points of US foreign policy as they know I enjoy documentaries on pelicans and penguins.
Lastly, if it takes years for my friends to learn all my little details, I certainly won't let a corporate entity learn my trivia in mere minutes. Imagine when hackers eventually succeed, if they haven't already done so, and they get a complete picture.
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Anonymous
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Holding out on purchasing a Quest 2 until I am able to use an Oculus account instead of Facebook login.
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Anonymous
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had planned to buy it but won't till this happens
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ゲーム会代表 清水 commented
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Anonymous
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Pius i wanted to buy future Oculus products for me and for my family...I might reconsider and go for the competition!
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Anonymous
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I deleted my Facebook account and do not want to make a fake one or use an Facebook account just to use my Quest which I bought. Means I own it. Means I do not want a company to force me to do something which I do not want to do!
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sho
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It was banned, and as soon as I got it released, it was banned again. Oculus quest2 has become garbage. can not do anything.
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Ben
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Was going to buy a Quest 2 for my kid for Christmas. Facebook requirement makes that a no-go.
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Tasha
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Make your own social media platform instead using others especially using facebook ****
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Tasha
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Remove facebook! I don't use it, and don't want it there leftists stealing info.
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Anonymous
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Please remove the Facebook logins, also cease and desist from taking snap shots of our personal lives and homes using the cams on the Oculus. Until this is sorted I will NOT be purchasing any Oculus products, and I will certainly start looking into legal help for this virtual ****.
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Ray Proffitt
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Fb already owns Oculus data, why oh why do you make your users link accounts and potentially ban access to our device based on our social data?
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Joe Voght
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Social media and gaming shouldn’t be tied. Let the user decide, we already bought it?!
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Michael Gallagher
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Please remove the Facebook login requirement. It seems like bad form to lock Oculus users to the platform at a time when Facebook is under the anti-trust microscope for its anti-competitive business practices. This is blatantly irresponsible and anti-consumer and the privacy implications of linking 4 wide angle head mounted cameras to a massive social network are enormous.
While I had previously and voluntarily connected my Facebook account to my Oculus Rift account in order to enable some of the social features I do not want access to my library of games to be contingent on maintaining the good standing of my Facebook account. I have no intent on violating any terms of use but I am greatly concerned with the company's ever shifting perspective on what constitutes "acceptable speech" on the platform.
Do right by your customers and allow "Log in with facebook" to be an optional feature as it has always been on the Rift.
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Anonymous
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Please, this is insane