How To Stop Facebook From Tracking Your Activity on Other Websites
Here's How Websites and apps use Facebook's Pixel and software development kit (SDK) to gather information about your device and your activity and send that to Facebook. Facebook users that information to then show you targeted ads. |
| How To Stop Facebook From Tracking Your Activity on Other Websites |
It's why people are convinced Facebook must be taking note of their conversations since they see ads in their News Feed for the very products or items they were just talking about. Here's a newsflash: Facebook doesn't get to hear your conversations. It already knows such a lot about you, it can practically read your thoughts.
If you do not believe me, the "Off-Facebook Activity" tool that Facebook announced back in August is finally available. Go take a glance at exactly what Facebook has collected about you. you would possibly be surprised in the least of the sites and apps you employ daily who are sharing information about what you are doing.
Here's the way to determine what sites are sending information to Facebook about you. The "Off-Facebook-Activity" tool isn't easy to seek out (though you'll click that link to travel on to it). If you would like to navigate there, click on the drop-down carrot within the top right of the desktop version of Facebook. Then select "Settings" and "Your Facebook Information" There you will find an option for "Off-Facebook Activity"
There you will find an inventory of all the sites that are sharing information with Facebook, and you'll clear your history (removing this information from your account), close up tracking for specific sites, or disable this tracking completely. To be clear, if you switch it off, Facebook will still receive information about your activity, it just won't be related to your account.
Also, turning off this sort of knowledge sharing does mean that you simply won't be ready to use Facebook to log in to other apps or sites. Never mind that you simply should not be using it, for this very reason, but if you're, you will be logged out and need to create a replacement login for those accounts or apps.
I don't often give Facebook credit for considering the privacy interests of its users, but this is often a welcome step in the right direction. the corporation has often had a tough time balancing its got to know the maximum amount because it can about you so that it can monetize that information, with the power for users to regulate what information is being collected and tracked. While there are still tons of changes Facebook will need to make before it can really claim to be a "privacy-protective" platform, this is often an honest start.
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