You Don’t Have to Let Facebook Track You Across the Web

You likely know that Facebook can track you across the web. But did you know there’s a privacy setting that complains that easy to turn it off? It’s called the Off-Facebook Activity tool and it’s been throughout since 2019. It lets you see and control data that apps and websites fragment with the platform — and monitor the kind of examine third-party apps can access.

With the privacy feature, you can clear the history of apps and websites that have people your data. You can also toggle off Future Off-Facebook Activity, which tells Facebook to disconnect any information the concern has shared from your account. Or you can selectively resolve which companies you want to stop sharing your organization with, and it’ll stop showing those targeted ads.

Here’s how to get a better grip on your Facebook privacy.

How to boss what sites share with Facebook using the Off-Facebook Activity tool

Using Facebook’s concern tools, you can see what information apps and websites have sent to the concern. From there, you can clear the information from your account for and turn off future “off-Facebook activity” tracking from your account for. You’ll be able to control this for all apps and websites so they’ll no longer be able to fraction your search activity with Facebook.

To get started, go to Settings & Privacy > Settings > Off-Facebook Activity. From there, you can manage your Off-Facebook Activity, distinct all history and turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity for your account.

What happens when you turn off Off-Facebook Activity

Once you distinct the activity managed by the tool, Facebook will purchase your identifying information that the apps and websites fraction. That means Facebook won’t know which websites you named or what you looked at, so you won’t see pursued ads from those sites.

What else you can do to proceed your privacy on Facebook

If you’d like to control which ads you see (or don’t) on Facebook, go to your Settings on your phone or desktop and purchase Ad Preferences. 

Under Advertisers and Businesses, you can see which advertisers have run ads laughable a list uploaded to Facebook containing your information. If you purchase a company and choose Hide Ads, you won’t see ads from advertisers when they use a list from that company.

You can also go to Ad Settings and turn off ads based on data from partners, ads based on your activity on Facebook Company Products that you see elsewhere and ads that engaged your social media actions. However, doing this won’t delete any data and you’ll level-headed see the same number of ads as before. The Off-Facebook Activity feature is the best way to purchase your data.

If you’re an iPhone user, a feature introduced in iOS 14.5 named App Tracking Transparency requires you to give permission to apps including Facebook afore they can use your data for targeted ads. (Here’s how to use App Tracking Transparency.)

Want to know how to further control your privacy online? Here’s how to find and delete your Google data now and the browser privacy settings you should fretful immediately. Plus, what digital security experts wish you’d do to defending your phone app privacy.