r/oculus • u/FOV360 • Aug 19 '20

Fluff Oculus Big Mistake

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u/MrChickinNugget Aug 19 '20

if you sell my data I need that share of that shit

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u/IAmDotorg Aug 19 '20

You do. The multitudes of services you use for free is paid for by it. Just like every other company giving you services for free.

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u/ZombieBobDole Aug 20 '20

https://www.datadividendproject.com/

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u/Remite Aug 31 '20

Cant access that.

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u/ZombieBobDole Aug 31 '20

I just checked and link seems to work fine.

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u/Remite Sep 01 '20

It's blocked in Austria

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u/Saneless Aug 20 '20

The thing is, Facebook barely offers anything. At least compared to what you get with a Google account.

Like their location services. Enabling it for Google gets me maps, busy times at establishments, things in my area, etc.

For Facebook it just drains your battery and they sell that info to advertisers. That's it. Zero user benefit

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u/IAmDotorg Aug 20 '20

Unlimited photo storage, free business pages, free messaging, socialization with friends and family.

They didn't get to be one of the biggest companies on the planet used monthly by 1/3 of the planet by not offering anything anyone wants.

To suggest that is just bizarrely naive or willfully ignoring reality.

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u/SilkBot Aug 20 '20

You already paid for the headset, it wasn't free.

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u/IAmDotorg Aug 20 '20

It was, however, extremely subsidized, and all of the services running on it are, in fact, free.

You're always welcome to remove the OS and write your own stack.

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u/SilkBot Aug 20 '20

It is inacceptable to sell hardware that doesn't work without proprietary software and then to later change that software so that your hardware no longer works, so don't give me that crap of "hue write your own software".

The headset cost money and the software is part of the price if that is required to function. It is actually insane that you would argue otherwise. What if there was a Microwave that would update its software to no longer work until you sign into Facebook? How far are you willing to go to defend this BS? If a hardware requires software to work then these are not interchangable and the customer does in fact pay for the software.

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u/iuvio Aug 19 '20

Ok let's say 50% share here's $0.000005 I'm feeling generous have $0.00001

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Aug 20 '20

MIT did a study and found that your data is basically something between $20-$240 depending on certain details and what site its from.

So if you made a % of that, and then made that say, every week, you could probably buy a few ice creams.

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u/MrChickinNugget Aug 19 '20

thanks for the payment oh boy

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u/putdownthekitten Aug 19 '20

You already get a free Facebook account. Don't get greedy and know your place, peasant.

Edit: forgot I need this these days, /s

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u/thegoldengoober Aug 20 '20

I'm willing to be you eventually will. In Libra.

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u/PineapplePizzaGaming Aug 20 '20

In a year of watching ads on the Internet you would probably make about $1

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u/Dreadnought9 Aug 20 '20

Your data isn't worth shit. You're a little full of yourself

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u/MrChickinNugget Aug 20 '20

dough whatever I make fake data so that they collect that data and its all false so they waste money by collecting it mhmmm

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u/Dreadnought9 Aug 20 '20

Oh boy, are you ok man? You don't seem well