How to turn off and control Off-Facebook Activity?

While any social network always follows you on the Internet, Facebook also receives information from third-party websites and applications. Any website or application that allows you to log in using Facebook credentials shares your information with Facebook. It sends this information to Facebook and this information is called Activity outside of Facebook. This post examines such activity. The publication also explains how to turn off activity outside of Facebook and how to clear activity history.

What is non-Facebook activity

Your online activity information that certain third-party websites and applications provide to Facebook is called non-Facebook activity. According to Facebook, it receives information about you and your browsing activities from certain applications or cookies from websites which are intended (constructed) to follow you on the Internet.

It indicates that applications only share information with Facebook. Like when you log into a website or app, the information goes to Facebook servers. Apart from that, if you choose to post to Facebook from an app or website, Facebook also receives this information.

Does non-Facebook activity help users? How? ‘Or’ What?

The social networking site claims that third party data is extremely useful in providing users with a more personalized experience. As an example, he cites an example of e-commerce. John connects to his e-commerce application using Facebook. This login information is shared with Facebook. Later, John buys something from the e-commerce application. This information is also transmitted to Facebook. Based on this information, Facebook may serve personalized announcements to John. It also means that you are being watched, however Facebook explains it.

How to deactivate or control activity outside of Facebook?

To prevent any activity outside of Facebook, you can deactivate it. In fact, it has two options:

1. Disconnect past activities outside of Facebook and
2. Prevent future activity outside of Facebook

This does not change the situation much. It will always receive information from the advertising networks that follow you. In addition, disconnection of activities outside of Facebook does not really delete the data provided by the associated application.

How to disconnect past activities outside of Facebook?

If you’d like to see which of your apps communicate your browsing habits to Facebook,

1. Click on the settings option in the menu that appears when you click on ee inverted triangle to the upper right corner of the Facebook window.
2. From there click on Your Facebook information in the left pane of the Facebook Settings window.
3. You can see an option in the right pane of the Facebook Settings window that says non-Facebook activity
4. Click on View.
5. In the window that appears, there are a few options on the right sidebar that allow you to delete past activities outside of Facebook and clear the history of these activities.

Click on Manage activity outside Facebook to view all apps and websites sharing information with Facebook. The page containing a list of applications can delete the history at the top of the list. Click on Clear story to delete the history. However, this does not delete the data.

To deactivate activity outside of Facebook, click on Manage your activity outside Facebook. In the new page that appears in the window, flip the toggle switch to disable it.

Note: Despite clearing your history and managing future activity outside of Facebook, data already sent and data sent in the future will be stored in your Facebook profile, so it makes no sense to deactivate it. Only you can stop seeing relevant advertisements.

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