Apparently people using old Oculus accounts are exempt. The strange thing here is the apparent lack of ability to opt out. It's pretty standard practice among data collection devices to at least have an option to turn it off, and since most people don't do so, it doesn't seem to have a large impact on analytics, but omitting an opt out except if using an account type that can no longer be created seems like a great way to alienate power users.
I commented here just recently that I found the privacy options on the Quest to be fine as they were implemented, and here they go and immediately change the terms just at the moment when Apple came in and made the Quest look like a great value for people who want to get into XR but don't want to pay $4k.
I'm not certain that Ars is right here about there being no opt-out, and even they don't seem to be sure, but I hope they're mistaken.
In previous versions, the features that were disabled had to do mostly with disabling multiplayer coordination if you choose not to share precise location information, in other words, just the things that would need that data to function. My Quest is currently updating, so I'll see soon if there's really no opt-out, but I wouldn't expect any change in function for removing analytics if their past is any indication.
I don't see much difference in the current version, and the anonymized data that you can't opt out of seems mostly to do with crash reports. It's laid out in this article, and although I'd prefer a full off option, it's not any worse than Windows and does respect choices after updates.
Everyone basically went with that line and called it "good" when I still thought it "a disaster" and the only response that typically comes after that is "well then just don't use it!" when there's no real good other alternatives on the market.
I commented here just recently that I found the privacy options on the Quest to be fine as they were implemented, and here they go and immediately change the terms just at the moment when Apple came in and made the Quest look like a great value for people who want to get into XR but don't want to pay $4k.
I'm not certain that Ars is right here about there being no opt-out, and even they don't seem to be sure, but I hope they're mistaken.