Facebook and your Privacy
Over the next few weeks, Facebook users will be able to use and control Facebook’s new ad preferences, which are available on every ad Facebook shows you, telling you why you’re seeing that advertisement and allowing you to add or remove your interests so your personalized ads are adjusted accordingly. Facebook plans to extend its ad preferences tool globally in the coming months.
However, if you don’t want Facebook to sell your personal information and browsing history to third-party companies, there’s an easy way to opt out.
If you don’t want us to use the websites and apps you use to show you more relevant ads, we won’t. You can opt out of this type of ad targeting in your web browser using the industry-standard Digital Advertising Alliance opt out, and on your mobile devices using the controls that iOS and Android provide.
According to Facebook’s post here, http://on.fb.me/1ncKtEK
Opt Out Tool for Online Behavior Advertising
According to About Ads Info, http://www.aboutads.info/choices/#completed
“Some of the ads you receive on Web pages are customized based on predictions about your interests generated from your visits over time and across different Web sites. This type of ad customization — sometimes called “online behavioral” or “interest-based” advertising — is enabled through your computer browser and browser cookies. Such online advertising helps support the free content, products and services you get online.
Using the tools on this page, you can opt out from receiving interest-based advertising from some or all of our participating companies.
- Find out which participating companies have currently enabled customized ads for your browser;
- See all the participating companies on this site and learn more about their advertising and privacy practices;
- Check whether you’ve already opted out from participating companies;
You will see their screen appear and a status window as it scans your web browser:
Click on Submit after you have selected All or some of the websites listed.
Your results will be shown as below. You may have to rescan to get 100%
Important things to remember about the choices you make on this page:
- These opt outs apply to interest-based advertising by participating companies. You will still receive other types of online advertising from participating companies, and the Web sites you visit may still collect information for other purposes.
- The opt out choices you select are stored in opt out cookies only in this browser, so you should separately set your preferences for other browsers or computers you may use. Deleting browser cookies can remove your opt out preferences, so you should visit this page periodically to review your preferences, or update to include new participating companies.
See more about Clearing your Browser Cache here
