Electronic Frontier Foundation
Meta’s reversal of its decision to require a Facebook login for VR should be a lesson to its competitors: users will not tolerate being corralled into privacy-invading procedures. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/pivotal-year-metaverse-and-extended-reality
Pivotal Year for the Metaverse and Extended Reality: 2022 in Review

Neal Stephenson’s classic 1992 dystopian novel Snow Crash inspired today’s tech industry in many ways. Google Earth is said to have been inspired by the novel’s “Earth” software, which lets people interactively visualize the whole world. Snow Crash is also the origin of an immersive virtual world...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dec 24, 2022 at 5:41pmWeb
Show threadDave SwerskyDec 24, 2022
@eff This was the deciding factor for getting my son a Quest 2 for Christmas, if FB accounts were still required it wouldn't have happened
Show threadjoeydannaDec 24, 2022
@eff I fear the real lesson is that users will absolutely be corralled into privacy invading procedures so long as they don’t reach a certain level, and companies will try to figure out what that level is and fool users into thinking they are beneath that level
Show threadAdam DallianceDec 24, 2022
@eff or at least that they will demand the privacy invading corporation changes the name of the account under which it invades privacy. 🙄