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Comment by dnissley | Hacker News Reader

re: The merging of facebook with oculus login -- next month you'll be able to create a standalone "meta" account, which are basically the equivalent of the old oculus accounts. You don't have to link them with a facebook account or any other existing account (but you will have the option).

https://store.facebook.com/help/accounts/?intern_source=blog...

Disclaimer: I work on a team that's helping out with this effort

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No, a Meta account is the equivalent of a Facebook account, not the equivalent of an Oculus account. Oculus was a VR company, not an advertising/data tracking company and their account system reflected that.

No one believes a standalone "meta" account won't be linked (behind their back) by Meta to their Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts.

No company or CEO deserves less trust than Meta and Zuckerberg.

Personally I can't blame you at all for such a belief given how poor of a steward of user data the company has been in the past.

All I can say is that it won't happen on my watch, and that the company gives product teams the tools and training to protect against such abuse before it happens, and incentivizes the raising of any privacy issues for many reasons including the FTC consent order that Zuckerberg has submitted to.

Thanks for your work to disentangle the two systems. I don't envy the work involved, but certainly appreciate what you're doing.

I'm one of the users frustrated when accounts were forcibly merged, but thankful Meta listened to user feedback and will revert it moving forward. No particular reason, but like many others, I prefer to have a separate identity for each service, instead of commingling all of them together.

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