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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Did a little digging and it seems like the main barrier to entry in the way of plug and play would be setting up a Meta account and using your smartphone to set it up. From what I know about Meta automatically making an account for every human they are aware of and the fact that all Androids (and iPhones?) have Facebook pre-installed with pre-loaded wide permissions, that's effectively the same as handing Zuckerberg all of my personal information by buying a Quest. While researching, I found it incredibly difficult to find anyone serious about privacy discussing the matter without getting shut down with a "Who cares? They have your information already just give them more."

Soft pass until I know how to do it without leaking my life to the Meta gods.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Back in the day, people wiresharked it all and said nothing untoward was going on back then. And a meta account in this regard is just an Oculus account. It has nothing to do with facebook.

But yeah, ultimately, I don't care if other people don't want to use it. I only care if I want to use it, and I do.

Also none of my androids came with facebook and still don't have it. But I don't buy subsidized from carriers, I just buy the phone I want and use the carrier I want separately.