How to prevent Facebook from reading your thoughts with simple controllable steps
Certainly, we all faced a big problem related to Facebook, which is that we always find posts, advertisements, and even articles that talk about a topic that we used to talk about with our friends orally, and we never did a search for the topic or even write a word related to it in search engines or within the Facebook application itself
Although Facebook rejects these accusations and always denies using the microphone to record people's conversations with each other, which can be a fact, but what is being done is more dangerous, as it invades the privacy of users to a large degree and penetrates into all that they care about, which prompted experts in the field ofprotection and information security to investigate this matter in depth to find solutions and ways to protect against Facebook application espionage.
The results of the investigation were that Facebook relies on tracking and analysis technology.
It is the use of advanced tools that collect user data and then analyze their behavior, orientations, interests by knowing the sites they visit and whether the visits are frequent or individual, as well as the applications they use, their field of work, their interest in certain publications and the duration of their stay in reading them, likes and comments, the interests of their friends who talk to them a lot, the places they talk or go to, and all the previous data is analyzed, so the tools have a complete picture of the person, and thus the appropriate publications are displayed for his interests and given to them Priority, including advertising.
This is annoying for many people, as it is considered an invasion of privacy from their point of view, but it is in fact an advanced means of promotion.
This is a deficiency of our understanding of the use of applications in general and the Facebook application in particular, how is this?
We already agree that we are spied on in the opinion of some, or that our data is used in analysis indirectly without knowing with the terms of use of applications and giving permission to them without knowledge, but this does not prevent that we can prevent some permissions after that to control what the application can use with our knowledge only
Here are simple steps we can control in preventing Facebook from reading our thoughts or monitoring us
Step One Control App Permissions
These are permissions that we have automatically accepted, such as camera, microphone, and location.
With the following steps, you can control permissions
On Android phones
Go to "Phone Settings"
Choose "Apps" and from there choose "Facebook"
Click on "Permissions"
Then turn off Camera, Microphone, Location permissions.
As for the iPhone, the method is as follows
Open "Settings"
Go down and choose Facebook
Then close unnecessary permissions
The second step is delete the activity outside the Facebook app "Off-Facebook Activity"
It is an important step to prevent the application from collecting your data from the sites that are accessed
The app is prevented from tracking in the following way:
Open the Facebook app
Go to "Settings & Privacy"
Choose "Settings"
Choose "Your activity outside of Facebook"
Clear data by clicking on "Clear History"
And click on "Manage Future Activity" and stop it
The third step is reduce ad personalization.
They are ads that are directed to you based on your digital behavior, tendencies and likes
And to control it, we go to "Facebook"
Settings
"Ads"
"Ad preferences"
Disallow the use of your data from Facebook partners
Then delete the previous interests and announcements
The fourth step is don't register on the sites using a Facebook account
Most sites allow logging into them through a Facebook account, but on the other hand, they are a tool for tracking through the application, by giving them permissions to do so, and for this it is preferable when registering on sites to use e-mail and write a password different from your important basic accounts
Finally, if you use Facebook through the browser, whether mobile or computer, you must choose a browser with privacy protection technology such as the Brave browser and the Firefox browser with the addition of uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger to prevent ads
We should all know that digital privacy is one of the most important basics that must be mastered in the era of racing tools to collect information and invade our privacy, but mostly it is a failure of our understanding of the permissions that we give to those tools without knowledge
