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You're the boss of you; no one else has a right to info about you.
(sure, barring legal circumstances -- which should be challengable in a court)
Cheapest privacy lesson they'll ever get.
(The point: privacy about who is allowed to acquire the valuables. The owner is in control, not someone else. Once they decide to give that away: fine, now it's no longer under their control.)
But that fundamentally doesn't matter in the least. I don't care what they do; but they cannot get access to my data without my approval. And they're definitely not getting my approval without some really good justification.
It's my data; I have no obligation to anyone else(*) to disclose anything about it.
(*) legal restrictions aside -- which is vastly different from someone who wants your data claiming they're legally entitled to it.
The reason the "nothing to hide" argument is wrong is because its starting point is wrong. The surveillor has to justify themselves, not the surveillee.
Put another way: I do not have to argue why someone else should not get access to my information. No one else should get access to my information unless and until they come up with reasons -- and I accept those reasons.
You do NOT need to justify why you're not sharing data.
The thing is: to sell me stuff, you don't need to know my name. You don't need to keep tabs on me. You may offer it, but I may decline. Plenty of mortar-and-bricks-stores work this way: there are loyalty cards for tracking, but customers who forego them do not have to register to make a purchase.
Point in fact: there are also internet shops that allow such options. Sure, they need a bit of data to send the parcel and the confirmation/invoice/etc. But that doesn't require everyone to create a username/password combination - and some internet shops blissfully do not require that. They get paid and ship the purchase to the address specified, and that's it.
In this case, it seems purchases could be tied to the Oculus device specified during the purchase. While I can certainly imagine benefits to tying purchases to a user account (e.g., ability to use on multiple Oculus devices), I don't see a reason to require logging in. Am I overlooking something?
As far as I know, most people who make money from Youtube videos do not have a contract with Youtube. There are plenty of stories of Youtube changes that strongly impact the monetization - most recently: [1].
I believe it's better to support content creators themselves (e.g., directly, or via a Patreon or something similar) than indirectly-no-strings-attached-I-hope-having-my-privacy-violated-gets-you-some-something.
Furthermore: the way advertisements work has become so nefarious, that basically your browser is sleeping around with 30-50 random unknown third parties on just about every site you visit. And browser STDs are rampant across the web. Browse safely, use a browser condom, i.e., an ad blocker.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20849752/youtube-creators-...