How to Change Your Off-Facebook Activity Settings

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/how-change-your-face­book-acti­vity-settings

Face­book’s long-awai­ted Off-Face­book Acti­vity tool star­ted rolling out today. While it’s not a perfect measure, and we still need stron­ger data privacy laws, this tool is a good step toward grea­ter trans­pa­rency and user control regar­ding third-party trac­king. We hope other compa­nies follow suit, and we encou­rage users to take advan­tage of it.

This tuto­rial will guide you through the steps to not only “clear” the off-Face­book acti­vity alre­ady linked with your account, but also to prevent future acti­vity from being asso­ci­a­ted with your account going forward. Note that this won’t stop third parties from sending Face­book infor­ma­tion about you—it will only stop Face­book from asso­ci­a­ting that infor­ma­tion with your account.

1. Navi­gate to the “Your Face­book Infor­ma­tion” section of your settings and select “Off-Face­book Acti­vity.” (Or, just go to https://www.face­book.com/off_face­book_acti­vity/ while logged into your account.)

2. You’ll see an option to “Clear History" in the side­bar on the right, but we want to use a more power­ful feature. At the bottom of that side­bar, click “More Opti­ons” and then select “Manage Future Acti­vity.”

3. You’ll see a pop-up giving you some more infor­ma­tion. Click “Manage Future Acti­vity.”

4. Click the blue toggle.

5. Click “Turn Off” in the pop-up, and you are done! This should return you to the same screen, with the toggle now grey and to the left in the “off” posi­tion.