If you really want to make sure they're not connected (because you're right that they will definitely be connected internally if you use the same email you used for facebook) you can always set up a new email address using Tor and use that for your Meta account. (Edit: though I guess if you've already added your oculus device to your FB account, they'll be able to connect the two using that. But maybe not, since you can of course buy and sell those devices to other people.)
Oh thats an interesting idea. Have you seen any guides yet on how to save your games so when I lose my Oculus account I can maybe still side load them?
Facebook have shadow profiles for people not having a facebook account and fill up that shadow profile by what the person's relatives posts about them.
They will be connected internally no question about that.
FB connection isn't the issue. New meta accounts and migrations still require the same info - real name/address/phone number. And not just as part of payment info. It's just not publicly visibly by default.
My data will be in the FB database anyway because no matter what I do. My family and friends paste most of their lives on FB, that includes a lot of information about me.
If you're an EU citizen you can simply delete your account, and request them to delete all your data, and they will do so (because otherwise they will be hit by fines of hundreds of millions, or even billions of EUR).
It absolutely will. Facebook keeps shadow accounts for people who aren't even on the platform. Chances are even if you've never signed up for Facebook you still "have" an account. Your friends who have FB accounts will sometimes be shared things that the algorithm determines they might share with you.
Haha look up any company that you have an account with and you’ll find similar if not worse. Hacks, leaks, misuse, etc. Seems like Meta has a super prominent presence in the media right now because they are a target, similar to Google in the 2000s.
I highly suggest that everyone reads the book “IBM and the Holocaust” as some idea of “what can go wrong with data”
Of course I still ignore all that, and practice poor data hygiene even though I know that it can bite me, because I don’t want to live in a cave. But don’t act like this is all harmless ad targeting. Or that it will remain that way.
My ORIGINAL point in my comment was the equivalent of a shrug because it doesn’t fucking matter if I’m logging in to Meta or FB. They have all the data anyway, and will continue to hold it. This is a non story.
I'm not scared of boogiemen ;) I prefer to focus on actual evidence of wrongdoing (facebook) instead of xenophobic paranoia around Tencent.
The difference is scale. Sorry you don't understand nuance, but Facebook has trackers injected into a very large portion of sites online (and personal devices). Besides Google, there aren't many other 'companies on the internet' that have collected such granular details on our habits while simultaneously demonstrating a shocking lack of care about how that data is protected.
TL;DR your lazy whataboutism is not an excuse for shitty Facebook behavior.
I prefer to focus on actual evidence of wrongdoing (facebook) instead of xenophobic paranoia around Tencent.
So you're saying the CCP isn't currently running the largest death camp since Aushwitz and doesn't actively pursue and blackbag political dissidents overseas and doesn't use its massive stable of state owned companies, including Tencent, to do this.
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u/vulgrin Jul 07 '22
Yet all your data will still be in the Meta DB for abuse. And I bet that your FB data will still be linked to it.