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The funny thing is Oculus reps (now deleted) telling people to create a separate Facebook account for Oculus, and those accounts getting permanently banned with
by dannyw 6y ago
The funny thing is Oculus reps (now deleted) telling people to create a separate Facebook account for Oculus, and those accounts getting permanently banned with no recourse because it's against Facebook's ToS to have multiple accounts.
- leppr 6y agoCreating fresh accounts for devices requiring them should be standard practice, and companies not allowing this boycotted. When you buy an Android phone, Google gives you a "free" account if you chose to create one (no phone number verification needed). EDIT: Or not, apparently. Might only work with some whitelisted manufacturers. Boycott Google too I guess.
- taylorfinley 6y agoThis has not been my experience for either of my last two Android phones, Google would not create an account without verifying a phone number. Their support forum recommended using a land line or borrowing a friend's phone.
- leppr 6y agoThat's sad to hear. The situation with smartphones is magnitudes worse than VR headsets. First, VR headsets have competitive consumer-respecting alternatives (Valve Index), second, they are for now purely an entertainment device, while smartphones are semi-required to competitively function in modern society. I'm surprised no government has yet tried to address the harmful smartphone OS duopoly, the only worthwhile initiatives are from unbacked Open-Source hackers.
- vorpalhex 6y agoYou can skip the Google account entirely on Android and everything still works more or less (more than a few nag screens, probably worth rooting if you go this direction).
- parliament32 6y agoYou can't use the Play Store though, right? So no app installs unless you sideload from some other source?
- mrguyorama 6y agoAt that point you could probably sideload one of the alternative app stores and be all set, unless FDroid like hooks into google services for things
- vorpalhex 6y agoThere are alternative app stores and actually, the ones I've tried have worked pretty well. There is a way to get play store working but you'd be violating ToS technically.
- sdflhasjd 6y agoI think that used to be the case, but I recently got an Android TV (I know it's not _exactly_ the same thing) and had no option but to log in. Of course, creating a new account for just one device was a pain too, as Google required some verification steps which included an SMS message.
- vorpalhex 6y agoWas this the new official Google TV (which is NOT actually Android TV though likely based off of it) or a 3rd party product?
- denimnerd46 6y agoThe Google TV Chromecast is an Android OS just confirm which is why Stadia doesn't work on it yet. Although you can sideload the Stadia mobile app.