I’m gonna delete the account after selling my Quest 2 for the Steam Frame
I can’t even access any Fakebook crap, because I have blocked any Zuckerbot service since a long time. It don’t exist anymore for me in the web.
I just set mine to the beginning of time: Jan 01, 1970.
wtf I deleted my account a year ago.
4-20-1969
I feel like posting about Facebook on /c/Privacy is like posting a photo of the dictionary definition of surveillance. Like, YEAH. WE KNOW.
I backed the original Oculus Rift, and felt massively betrayed when they sold to Meta. :(
For years since I’ve been waiting for A VR solution that plays nice with Linux and is at least somewhat privacy-respecting, and I have been absolutely unwilling to buy a Quest device or anything else. I want to play VR but I’m not willing to sell my soul for it. So it’s been an unhappy but conscious boycott from me.
I too then am super looking forward to the Steam Frame because it’s the device I need to get back into VR and feel happy and excited about it, rather than disgusted.
This has been such a depressing trend over the last few decades.
Fresh bright-eyed startup with a passionate creator develops some interesting and innovative product.
Gets bought out by FAANG, turns to shit and stops working properly or gets discontinued, and primarily functions as a spyware device.
That makes it sound like these startups have no choice in the matter. The funny thing is, you don’t have to sell your company to an enormous evil corporation if you don’t want to.
Depends on who your initial investors are and the contract you signed with them. They can and will force a sale if their RoI isn’t met in a specific time-frame, or if the buyout price reaches a certain valuation.
Partly true but Amazon has been known to make dupes of a product and sell it at a loss to drive the competitor out of business. I’m sure that threat lingers in some peoples’ minds.
They probably also promise the management team “you’ll still have creative control after we buy you”. Then turn around and replace each of them one by one
In capitalism you do. Society demands it.
Palmer Lucky turning into a Bond villain wasn’t exactly something I expected when I first saw him pushing the original Kickstarter Oculus
just set it to the January 1st of whichever year would make you 13 when you registered your account 😏 (I remember a platform deleting the account of someone when they, years later, revealed that they were under 13 when they registered)
It’s infuriating, really.
Add 1 Jan 1970.
I always enter November 5 1984 for any site that needs it.
Why that date? Is it from the book 1984?
Might be a reference to Guy Fawkes?
Oh, I guess it could be a combination of that and the dystopian novel.
I love that idea!
Don’t they already have shadow profiles on all of us, even if we don’t use Facebook? I long ago figured that they’re able to get ahold of all the info they want on us without our consent. Is tracking our habits and relationships not enough? Even if the idea is to use this as age verification, I highly doubt Facebook’s as clueless as to not have a ballpark estimate on all of us by now. (Or did the introduction of AI break things so bad that they can no longer deduce the sort of data they want? Hey, I can dream.)
I’ve heard that, but I’ve searched for my name on Facebook and I never find anything about myself. My wife has a Facebook account, she has the app on her phone and tablet, and I’ve had cause to use it. Like she’ll tell me to go into her messages and get a recipe or something. I don’t read them, but we don’t keep secrets from each other. Anyway, I’ll be bored in a car ride and I’ll start looking up my coworkers, and laugh at the dumb shit they post (that could identify them/their location to strangers). Once in a while I’ll look myself up. I’m not a public figure, per se, but I do have imitators, so if you look my name up, first and last, a couple profiles will come up, but they have nothing to do with me and they don’t have any information that matches mine. I don’t know if those are the “shadow profiles” people talk about, but they are not a threat to me.
Facebook has a fake birthday for me and it’s never been a problem. It’s somewhat close to the real date but not the real date.
Thankfully I haven’t had to use any Meta products for a while now, and as far as Alphabet is considered I’ll turn 126 years old on 01/01/2026 and live where my country’s parliament building is. Because fuck them, that’s why.
I’m glad that John Carmack is rich and intellectually stimulated, but watching him be wasted building Metaverse VR was like trying to remove my own teeth with a pair of pliers.
was like trying to remove my own teeth with a pair of pliers.
That’s oddly specific. Did you try that?
Edit: English is not my main language, and I did not think over the meaning of “pliers”.
Bruh im looking at buying a used quest 2 because they offer such a compelling value. But seriously do I have to make an account just to use the damn thing? What if I only use it teathered to my pc?
I have one that I used to use with my PC (switched to linux and it’s a pain in the ass to do is why I stopped). I would still have to log in to start the app to hook to my PC.
I went as far as scanning my passport for these @ssholes and they still banned me 😂 to this day I have no clue why
Because you’re nothing to them
Time to delete your Facebook.
I deleted my Facebook two years or so ago already
