Oh they will “start”. Right. I am positive they have not started before they announced they would, totally.

Day 499: “user watched porn again, penis is still very small”

It should be noted that this is a separate policy from the completely unanonymous data collection policy, which has been in effect for years.

Does this imply they weren’t anonymizing it previously?

On multiple occasions I was given the choice to try a Quest. Never once did I.

Install adaway and add some extra, meta, oculus and facebook blocklists

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Starting with the next software update, though, the company will begin collecting and aggregating “anonymized data about… device usage” from Quest users.

That anonymized data will be used “for things like building better experiences and improving Meta Quest products for everyone,” the company writes.

A linked help page on data sharing clarifies that Meta can collect anonymized versions of any of the usage data included in the “Supplemental Meta Platforms Technologies Privacy Policy,” which was last updated in October.

That document lists a host of personal information that Meta can collect from your headset, including:

The anonymized collection data is used in part to “analyz[e] device performance and reliability” to “improve the hardware and software that powers your experiences with Meta VR Products.”

Those who use a legacy Oculus account are subject to a separate privacy policy that describes a similar but more limited set of data-collection practices.

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