Facebook: how to delete targeted advertisements

Websites and "apps" spy for the benefit of Facebook.Here is how to neutralize this collection of personal data.

C’est une conspiration invasive.Websites and applications are accomplices of Facebook when you inject targeted advertisements on your screen.

To formulate it differently, the social network uses your personal data transmitted by its partners (sites, "apps") to distribute "pubs" targeted on your Facebook profile.

Here is how this mechanics work:

-You buy a pair of shoes on an online ready-to-wear store.

- The online store communicates this information to Facebook via a collaboration tool.

- Facebook combines this info with your profile.

- Facebook uses this personal data to broadcast on your profile an advertisement for a 10% reduction voucher valid on your next purchase on this store.

This example is given by Facebook in person at this address.

The platform gives others:

- "You may have seen advertisements for good hotel plans if you have visited travel sites.»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

- "You may have seen events on fitness lessons if you have recently wanted or bought sportswear.»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

New options

In itself, the principle of targeted advertising on the Internet is nothing new.What challenges is the magnitude of this Facebook uniting collaboration, websites and applications.

What you do far from the social network directly influences your Facebook profile.Welcome to the world of "activity outside of Facebook"»»»»»»»»»»»».

"Activity outside of Facebook includes the information that companies and organizations share with us about your interactions with them.Interactions are things like access to their website or connection to their app with Facebook.»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

Relief, Facebook inaugurates new options and now allows you:

- D’effacer votre historique de l’activité en dehors de Facebook.

- De désactiver l’enregistrement sur votre compte de votre activité en dehors de Facebook.

On smartphone

1.Clear history

Since the Facebook application:

-> Paramètres

-> Activité en dehors de Facebook

->Clear history

->Clear history

2.Disable the link between activity outside Facebook and your account

Since the Facebook application:

-> Paramètres

-> Activité en dehors de Facebook

-> Plus d’option

-> Gérer l’activité future

-> Gérer l’activité future

-> Désactiver l’interrupteur Activité future en dehors de Facebook

On computer

1.Clear history

From the Facebook site on your browser:

-> Paramètres

-> Vos informations Facebook

-> Activité en dehors de Facebook

->Clear history

->Clear history

2.Disable the link between activity outside Facebook and your account

From the Facebook site on your browser:

-> Paramètres

-> Vos informations Facebook

-> Activité en dehors de Facebook

-> Plus d’options

-> Gérer l’activité future

-> Gérer l’activité future

-> Désactiver l’interrupteur Activité future en dehors de Facebook

The result

Here are the results you will get after applying these settings:

"You will always see the same amount of advertisements.But the advertisements you will see may be less personalized.»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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