If you have not used the privacy feature that Facebook introduced last year, it’s time to start. It is called Activity outside of Facebook and it lets you view and control data that apps and websites share with the platform and continue to monitor the type of information third-party apps can access.
With the privacy feature, you can clear the history of apps and websites that have shared your data. You can also disable future activities outside of Facebook, which say that Facebook should disconnect all information that the company has shared from your account. Or you can selectively choose which companies you want to stop sharing your activity with and it will stop showing the targeted ads.
Here’s how to put one together for use with your Facebook privacy.
With the Facebook tool, you can control which websites share your information.
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How to manage which information sites share with Facebook using the activity tool Off-Facebook
With Facebook’s business tools, you can see what information apps and websites have sent to Facebook. From there, you can clear the information from your account and disable future “off-Facebook activity” from your account. You will be able to check this for all apps and websites so that they can no longer share your search activity with Facebook.
To get started, go to Settings and privacy > settings > Your Facebook information > Activity outside of Facebook. From there, you can manage your Off-Facebook activity, clear all history and turn off any future activity to your account.
What happens when you turn off activity handled by Off-Facebook
Once you have cleared the activity handled by the tool, Facebook will remove your identifying information that apps and websites share. This means that Facebook does not know which websites you have visited or what you have been looking at, so you will not see any targeted ads from those websites.
Turn off your activity.
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What else can you do to improve your privacy on Facebook
If you want to check which ads you see (or not) on Facebook, go to yours settings on your phone or desk and select Advertising preferences.
Under Advertisers and Companies, you can see which advertisers have run ads with a list uploaded to Facebook that contains your information. By choosing a company and then choosing do not allow, you will not see ads from advertisers when using a list from that company.
You can also go to Ad settings and turn off ads based on partner data, ads based on your activity on Facebook Company Products that you see elsewhere, and ads that include your social actions. However, doing so will not delete any data and you will still see the same number of ads as before. The off-Facebook activity feature is the best way to delete your data.
If you are an iPhone user and have upgraded to iOS 14.5, a new feature called App Tracking Transparency requires you to authorize apps including Facebook before they can use your data for targeted ads (here is how to use App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5).
Want to know how you can further control your privacy online? Here is how to find and delete your google data now and that browser settings you should change immediately.
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