[blueking]

Funny I just setup my Quest 2 today. Made a fresh facebook account with a new email and chose a fake name and birthday. Breaking the FB ToS is NOT a crime. Why would anyone pay an extra $500, and then $180/yr when the worst that can happen is the $300 headset gets bricked/banned? This is a stupidity tax.

[jobigoud]

Your FB account will most likely be flagged/ banned if you don't use it as a normal person, unless you are lucky. Not respectiing the TOS is not a crime but them enforcing them is also not a crime...

[blueking]

I don't think that's true. They don't have time to police billions of facebook accounts for 'normal' behavior. I'll friend a few random people. In the super unlikely worst case I'm out $300 but probably so is FB. It's in their interests to collect data and sell it under the fake name I gave. Only if I explicitly state to them the name is fake do they lose out. They don't ask and I won't tell and the advertisers will purchase shit. Win, win, win.

[jobigoud]

They don't need "time", it's automated, as part of the spam protection. A real profile is much more valuable to them than a fake one.

[blueking]

I'm saying that their automated tools can't tell the difference between 'normal' and 'fake' use. And the fact that I'm still using my dummy account is proof

[croes]

So planes can't crash because I fly regularly and never crashed. There are enough people whose new account got banned exactly because the tooks can't tell the difference. If they decide you're account is a bot or fake you are done. It can happen to you anytime. The main problem is that you lose access to paid software if they ban you.

[senkora]

Was your account not immediately banned? It seems like people had a lot of problems with that strategy in practice when the Quest 2 first came out.

[blueking]

I created an email alias on my domain to start the FB account. Works fine, not banned. If they get data to sell, probably they don't care. I can run credit card payments on the store as well.