Your mobile device will browse with secure connections when available. For a step-by-step look at this process, read on below. To find Account settings, look for the gear symbol from your home screen and click it. Account Settings will be in the drop down menu you see right after you click.
After you click Account settings , you will see the Settings Page screenshot 2. Here, click on Security , in the left menu. Then look on the first line to the right, Secure Browsing, and click the Edit link to the right. In this screenshot, we have selected the security tab in the left menu. To select Secure Browsing, click the blue Edit link to the right of the Secure Browsing line, at the top. After you click the blue Edit link, you will see the Secure Browsing Settings box screenshot 3.
The default settings on Facebook permit your user profile to show up in any Google search that includes your name. But you can change the settings to make your profile less Google-able. You can even exclude certain pals, like, say, your boss or that nosy neighbor. But the company does offer a bit of control over certain aspects of the Facebook ad system. There are three settings worth thinking about.
Facebook has recently been rolling out updates to its advertising settings. The last few instructions may be slightly different on some accounts, but these steps will be close enough that you should be able to find your way.
You can tell Facebook you want to see fewer ads related to alcohol, parenting, pets, social issues, elections, and politics.
There are additional ways you can adjust your social media feed for a healthier and more pleasant experience, too. Millions of websites also use Facebook's hidden tracking "pixels" that give you no visual clue you're being monitored. The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser, has designed an ad blocker specifically for this task.
It takes only a few clicks to install the Facebook Container extension. The directions are easy to find online. For details on the data we collect, consult our privacy policy. That gives you a little preview before you decide to open up a dialog. However, you can decide not to receive these messages at all. Or you can go in the other direction with some kinds of connections, and have messages open up straight to a regular chat.
Facebook allows for some fine-tuning. You can make specific choices for different categories of people, such as friends of friends. Adjusting your Facebook settings is a great first step toward protecting your privacy. But the apps on your phone and the services you use online unite to form an entire data ecosystem, and you should take the whole picture into account. If you use other services that Facebook owns, such as Instagram and WhatsApp , lock down your settings on those products, too.
While Facebook closed the policy loophole that allowed the data leak that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal , there are plenty of other ways friends can let you down—by posting inappropriate content, for example, or falling for scams that permit accounts to be hacked.
This can help you keep your account more secure. Do you often see online ads that relate to your likes and hobbies? I want to live in a world where consumers take advantage of technology, not the other way around.
Access to reliable information is the way to make that happen, and that's why I spend my time chasing it down. And why not? At the time it's a simple enough request, a way to share photos more easily, or find friends across the app diaspora. In doing so, though, you're granting developers deep insight into your Facebook profile. And until Facebook tightened up permissions in , you were also potentially letting them see information about your friends, as well; Cambridge Analytica scored all that data not from a hack, but because the developer of a legitimate quiz app passed it to them.
Time to audit which apps you've let creep on your Facebook account, and give the boot to any that don't have a very good reason for being there.
That's most of them. On a desktop—you can do this on mobile as well, but it's more streamlined on a computer—head to the downward-facing arrow in the upper-right corner of your screen, and click Privacy. You're going to spend a lot of time here today.
Now go to Apps , and gaze upon what your wanton permissions-granting hath wrought. OK, so maybe it's not that bad. Or maybe it is! I have friends who discovered well over a dozen apps lurking within the Logged in with Facebook pane; I only have four, but that's because I did some spring cleaning recently. Either way, you can see not only what apps are there, but how much info they're privy to. For instance: I haven't used IFTTT in years, but for some reason it has access to my Friend list, my timeline, my work history, and my birthday.
To revoke any of those permissions, go over and click the pencil. To scrap the app altogether, hit the X. You'll get a pop-up asking if you're sure.
Yes, you're sure. Click Remove to make it official. An important note here: Those developers still have whatever data about you that they've collected up to this point. You have to contact them directly to ask them to delete it, and they're under no obligation to do so. To at least make the attempt, find the app on Facebook and send them a message.
If they ask for your User ID, you can find that back on the Apps page by clicking on the app in question and scrolling all the way down. It feels like you should be done now, but you're not. From that same Apps page, go down just a smidge further to Apps, Websites, and Plugins. If you don't want Facebook bleeding into any other part of your online experience—that's games, user profiles, apps, you name it—then click Disable Platform.
This could have unintended consequences, especially if you've used Facebook to login to other sites! Only one way to find out, though. And then scroll down just one more teensy bit to Apps Others Use , where you'll see about a dozen bits of information about you, like your birthday, or if you're online, that your friends might unwittingly be sharing with apps and websites.
Uncheck anything you don't want out there in the world, which is honestly probably all of it. Facebook somehow never got around to changing it. Back to the Settings panel! This time head to Ads , which you'll find right below Apps. The fact that neither of these falls under Security or Privacy should tell you all you need to know about Facebook's disposition here.
Just to be clear, Facebook—along with Google, and tons of faceless ad networks— tracks your every move online , even if you don't have an account. That's the internet we're stuck with for now, and no amount of settings tweaks can fix it. What you can do, though, is take a modicum of control over what Facebook does with that information.
That pair of shoes that haunts your News Feed, even though you already bought a similar pair? Exorcise them by turning off Ads based on my use of websites and apps. Also say no to Ads on apps and websites off the Facebook companies , which covers all the non-Facebook parts internet where the company serves up ads—which is pretty much everywhere. Then head straight down the line to Ads with your social actions , which you should only leave on in the event you want to share with the world that you accidentally clicked Like on that sponsored post from a furniture company that probably exists only on a server in Luxembourg.
And for some fun insight into what Facebook thinks you're into, click on Your Interests.
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