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You can create an account that has none of your personal information. I understand why people don't have an FB account. I don't, and I use an Oculus . But th

You can create an account that has none of your personal information. I understand why people don't have an FB account. I don't, and I use an Oculus . But the downside of having an FB account is they plant cookies on your browser or track you in their app. If you are only using the FB account on your Oculus, its an Oculus account that calls itself an FB account. You need an account for most game devices these days and for Steam. I am not saying its perfect, I am saying that not using an Oculus because you are off FB doesn't make that much sense to me. I do exactly that.

ThalesX 5y ago
One thing I can think of that might complicate this is that Facebook has a policy of not allowing nicknames if I understand correctly. Which is why they can also verify you with national ID and others if something happens (and it does). How would I remain as anonymous as I am on Steam for the community and still work within Facebook's terms of service?
- icedchai 5y ago
  I know plenty of people with nicknames (generally, fake last names) on Facebook. They just have to "look" real. Perhaps use your middle name as your last name.
  - betwixthewires 5y ago
    I did that back when I had an account about a decade ago, and some do gooder got into an argument with me, didn't like my opinion and reported my account. It got locked and they asked for a government issued ID. Fuck that. I never went to the site again. Good riddance.
    - sebastien_b 5y ago
      Exact same happened to me - lots of snowflakes on Meta[stasize].
warning26 5y ago
> You can create an account that has none of your personal information Facebook pretends this is the case, but they use some dirty tricks to require personal information without explicitly requiring it. In particular, if you create an account without a phone number, you'll find that within a day or two your account will inevitably be flagged for "suspicious" behavior, and you'll be required to enable two-factor-authentication with a valid phone number. (I assume the "suspicious" behavior here is your account existing without a phone number.)
- vmception 5y ago
  You can mitigate this by attempting to friend a couple people upon account creation. I've seen this pattern and the excuses people make for it too (anti spam prevention, as if there are no other anti spam prevention methods)
deadbunny 5y ago
> But the downside of having an FB account is they plant cookies on your browser or track you in their app. Use Firefox, it automatically puts Facebook in its own Firefox Container so no FB cookies tracking you everywhere. And don't use their app it's basically spyware.

ThalesX 5y ago

One thing I can think of that might complicate this is that Facebook has a policy of not allowing nicknames if I understand correctly. Which is why they can also verify you with national ID and others if something happens (and it does). How would I remain as anonymous as I am on Steam for the community and still work within Facebook's terms of service?

icedchai 5y ago
I know plenty of people with nicknames (generally, fake last names) on Facebook. They just have to "look" real. Perhaps use your middle name as your last name.
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  I did that back when I had an account about a decade ago, and some do gooder got into an argument with me, didn't like my opinion and reported my account. It got locked and they asked for a government issued ID. Fuck that. I never went to the site again. Good riddance.
  - sebastien_b 5y ago
    Exact same happened to me - lots of snowflakes on Meta[stasize].

warning26 5y ago

> You can create an account that has none of your personal information Facebook pretends this is the case, but they use some dirty tricks to require personal information without explicitly requiring it. In particular, if you create an account without a phone number, you'll find that within a day or two your account will inevitably be flagged for "suspicious" behavior, and you'll be required to enable two-factor-authentication with a valid phone number. (I assume the "suspicious" behavior here is your account existing without a phone number.)

vmception 5y ago
You can mitigate this by attempting to friend a couple people upon account creation. I've seen this pattern and the excuses people make for it too (anti spam prevention, as if there are no other anti spam prevention methods)

deadbunny 5y ago

> But the downside of having an FB account is they plant cookies on your browser or track you in their app. Use Firefox, it automatically puts Facebook in its own Firefox Container so no FB cookies tracking you everywhere. And don't use their app it's basically spyware.