Stop Appearing on Facebook Ads: Tips to Avoid Recommendation Targeting
If you don’t already know, Facebook has been using your personal preferences on its ads network, which includes your name, likes and other activities. To some, this may be a major privacy issue since Facebook is using its users’ personal data without prior consent to falsely attract or mislead others for marketing or advertising purposes.
It is quite impossible to expect Facebook to change their advertising strategy especially when a majority Facebook users did not express discomfort with the issue. But if this bugs you, there is a solution that will remove Facebook’s misuse of your personal data.
This can be achieved by changing the account setting on your Facebook account. With only one simple action, your personal data will be free from exposure.
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1. Account Setting
Login to your Facebook account and click on the ‘Account Settings’ button at the top right corner of your Facebook page.
2. Facebook Ads
Click on the ‘Facebook Ads’ button on the left menu.
3. Ads and friends
Clicking on the ‘Facebook Ads’ menu will bring you to the ads setting page. You are given two options:
- Ads by third parties – Mainly for future planning
- Ads and Friends – Current setting
Since we are looking at the current privacy setting, lets go to the second option that says ‘Ads and friends’, and click on ‘Edit social ads setting’.
4. Pair for no one
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and change the setting ‘Pair my social actions with ads for’ from ‘Only my friends’ to ‘No one’, and then click on the save button.
Conclusion
It takes only one simple step to be free from this Facebook recommended ads issue. Your name or pictures will no longer appear on any recommendation ads within Facebook, and you won’t be made to mislead your friends on your preferences on the social networking site.