So I recently made two (long) posts about how to clear your Off-Meta Activity and how to toggle-off Meta Ads Data Permissions for those who are unable to leave Facebook for any reason. I decided it might be good to also post a short version of both together that might be easier to share. Let's just jump into it:
Profile icon ➡️ Settings and Privacy ➡️ Settings ➡️ See more in Accounts Center ➡️ Your Information and Permissions ➡️ Your activity off Meta technologies
Once in the Your activity off Meta technologies window you're going to want to clear your previous activity, then disconnect your future activity.
Profile icon ➡️ Settings and Privacy ➡️ Settings ➡️ See more in Accounts Center ➡️ Ad preferences ➡️ Manage info
Once in the Manage Info window you'll notice three categories: Information used to show you ads, Ads shown outside of Meta, and Other settings.
In the Information used to show you ads category:
Open Categories used to reach you, and disable all those options. Then, in the bottom of that same window, find Categories associated with you ➡️ View and manage, and remove them all
Disable Activity information from ad partners
Go through Audience-based advertising and remove permissions/lists there.
In the Ads shown outside of Meta category:
Disable Ads from ad partners in other apps
Disable Ads about Meta on other platforms
Then under the Other Settings category:
Click on Social interactions and disable Meta from including your social interactions alongside ads that your friends see.
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And we're done!
If you'd like a more in-depth post with pictures to help you do this you can follow the links above to find those.
Also, even if you can't delete your Facebook account, I urge you to please delete/uninstall the app from your phone as that's the #1 best way to keep it from tracking you everywhere you go IRL and online.
(You may need to go into Settings ➡️ Apps to fully uninstall the FB app. I thought I deleted it years ago, but still found it in my list of apps just the other day. Turns out I only "disabled" it, and had to "uninstall" by going through settings (I assume uninstalling through app store should also work tho))
That said, if you delete no other Meta app from your phone- make sure to delete FB messenger- it's literally the worst one, but that's another post, which I'll hopefully get to later.
Stay safe out there, and remember- fuck Facebook.