Facebook Tracks Your Online Activity: How to opt out

Facebook tracks your online activity through various methods, such as cookies, social plug-ins, and pixels, to show you personalized ads.

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You can view and clear your off-Facebook activity, which is the information that Facebook receives from other websites and apps that use its services.

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To access your off-Facebook activity, go to Settings & Privacy > Settings > Your Facebook Information >Off-Facebook Activity.

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To stop Facebook from tracking your future off-Facebook activity, click on More Options >Manage Future Activity and turn off the feature.

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You can also change your ad preferences, disable ad tracking at the device level, clear your activity log, turn off location tracking, and use an anti-tracking extension to limit Facebook's tracking.

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