Facebook is Now Sharing Your Browsing History With Advertisers
The Unhived Mind
Facebook is Now Sharing Your Browsing History With Advertisers
By Jamie Condliffe on 12 Jun 2014 at 2:15PM
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/06/facebook-is-now-sharing-your-browsing-history-with-advertisers/
Facebook has announced that it’s to start using app and website data from your browsing habits to provide more targeted ads—and you’ll have to opt out if you don’t like it.
The feature, which will hit Facebook accounts in the coming weeks, will provide advertisers with the information required to target Facebook ads more directly. That already happens elsewhere across the internet, but Facebook’s previously never used the data in this way. So, look at a new product online—say, a TV or pair of shoes—and you can expect to seem them on your blue feed.
More control is coming to the ads you see, too: soon, Facebook will add a drop-down menu to ads which will allow you to remove a brand from your ad interests. Facebook points out, though, that you’ll have to opt-out with the Digital Advertising Alliance to stop your browsing habits being shared with advertisers. Privacy activists, you may start shouting… now.
theunhivedmind says:
Easiest thing to do is not use this vile Facebook at all. If you are part of the herd and make excuses for your bad behaviour then simply use a spare browser making sure its cleaned and then open facebook in that browser. When you finish on that lame site, simply delete the history again and move back over to your main browser. Never trust their options to opt-out.
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