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Now, while I totally support 3rd party integration into hardware and software, I'm so utterly distrustful of Facebook (they will always be Facebook a rebrand isn't going to get people to forget their past controversies) and although they've been forced to backtrack on very intrusive aspects of the Quest headsets in the last couple of years, please please please do educate yourself on what exactly data harvesting means in the modern world, and do what you can to minimise it. It's not about your data necessarily that's important really, it's about that data times a user base of multiple billions and how that translates to influencing extremely big things in the world. It's the reason data is the most expensive commodity currently in the world.
Meta's privacy policy explicitly states the following, yet ever since 2016 it's been one massive illegal data sale to another:
Source: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/guide/ads/
These occur multiple times a year quite literally.
The point is that Meta have proven and continue to prove time and time again that they have absolutely no regard for user privacy or laws because selling data illegally pays them money which means more to them than your rights, and the fines issued mean absolutely nothing to them as it barely scratches the surface and currently legislation doesn't allow for meaningful penalties. And it's the people they choose to sell this data to that we all need to be very careful of globally.
This move is a Microsoft move, licensing the OS to hardware vendors to get it as widely spread as possible enabling greater data harvesting. It's why they're pushing so heavily on their MetaVerse. I don't deny the experience may be the best value, I do think the sacrifice though is definitely not worth it.
But my feelings aside, here's the article
www.roadtovr.com
Meta's privacy policy explicitly states the following, yet ever since 2016 it's been one massive illegal data sale to another:
Source: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/guide/ads/
These occur multiple times a year quite literally.
The point is that Meta have proven and continue to prove time and time again that they have absolutely no regard for user privacy or laws because selling data illegally pays them money which means more to them than your rights, and the fines issued mean absolutely nothing to them as it barely scratches the surface and currently legislation doesn't allow for meaningful penalties. And it's the people they choose to sell this data to that we all need to be very careful of globally.
This move is a Microsoft move, licensing the OS to hardware vendors to get it as widely spread as possible enabling greater data harvesting. It's why they're pushing so heavily on their MetaVerse. I don't deny the experience may be the best value, I do think the sacrifice though is definitely not worth it.
But my feelings aside, here's the article
Meta is Opening Quest's Operating System to Third-party Headsets, Marking a Massive Shift in Strategy
Today Meta made what is likely to be an industry-altering announcement: it plans to open up the Quest operating system to third-party device makers. Asus, Lenovo, and Xbox have been tapped to create new headsets built on the operating system which is being branded ‘Meta Horizon OS’. Meta has...
www.roadtovr.com
