You must have searched for a shoe in a shopping app and the next thing you come across is the exact same ad in your Facebook feed. It’s not magic, it’s a deep integration between apps and services that allows Facebook to learn your preferences from your activities in other apps. Basically, companies like Spotify, Zomato, Airbnb, and others include the Facebook SDK in their apps and report your activity history to Facebook, such as your music preferences, food choices, location information.
Facebook calls this data “Off-Facebook Activity” and uses this data to target users with personalized ads and services. If you want to stop Facebook from accessing your activity history collected from other apps, you’ve come to the right place. Here we will show you how to remove your Off Facebook Activity and disable the feature permanently. So let’s move on to the guide now.
Remove Your Off-Facebook Activity
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On Android and iOS Devices
1. Open the Facebook app on your Android or iOS device and go to the hamburger menu in the upper right corner. Here, expand “Settings and Privacy” and open “Settings”.
2. Now go to the “Your Facebook information” section. Tap on “Non-Facebook Activity“.
3. Once you’re here, tap “Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity”. on the next page, find all third party apps People who report your activity history to Facebook. Now, tap “Clear History” and it will remove all your Non-Facebook activity collected from other apps.
4. In case you want to use it permanently Stop Facebook from using data Collected from third-party apps for any purpose, then tap “More Options” and turn on “Manage Future Activity”.
5. Now disable the “Future Non-Facebook Activity” toggle. This much. While this prevents Facebook from using your data for ad personalization and other purposes, third-party apps it will still report your activity to Facebook.
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on the Internet
1. If you use Facebook on the web, simply open most Off Facebook Activity page by clicking the link. After that, click on the “Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity” option.
2. On the next page, “Clear HistoryPress the ” button and you are done. It deletes all your non-Facebook activity collected from third-party apps.
3. You can also click on “Manage Future Event” and turn off toggle To permanently disable Facebook’s use of third-party data.
Stop Facebook From Collecting Your Activity History From Third-Party Apps
So you can remove your Off-Facebook activity and prevent Facebook from using your personal preferences. It’s terrible to me that so many major apps regularly post their users’ activity data to Facebook without active permission. I hope one day companies will completely remove the Facebook SDK from their apps. Anyway, that’s it for us. If you found the article helpful, comment below and let us know. And for more such information, you can check out our article on the best Facebook tips and tricks.
