Facebook is
making plans to track your store visits and even purchases with your mobile
wallet as explained in the article “Facebook taps GPS,
Square to track your in-store visits and purchases”, published 14 June 2016
by Josh Constine, Techcrunch.
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This is possible
thanks to data sharing partnerships with retailers Square and Marketo. Facebook
uses the Facebook App on your phone tapping into GPS, beacons, Wi-Fi, radio
signals, and cell towers to triangulate you location. Facebook can then gather
data while you’re in the store to know exactly where, when, how and why you
purchased what you purchased.
Most likely,
this mountain of data will be processed by Facebooks AI in order to serve up
the correct ads based on your real-world interests gleaned from this data as
explained in my blog
article entitled “How
Facebook AI Engineers use AutoML to teach FLOW to make Asimo”.
Facebook is
tracking you; plain and simple.
After all,
how else could they possible be able to send you Advertisements tailored to you
in their version of Facebook Ads as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
Facebook Ads is using AI to build their version of Google Adwords and Adsense”.
This video
explains how Facebook Track you even when you're not on Facebook.
Basically
Facebook is Santa Clause! Folks, you don't have to put up with Facebook
Tracking you and posting ads based on your activity on your Facebook page, even
when you're not on Facebook.
How to stop Facebook from Tracking
you - Apple, Google Android and Google Chrome users covered
First, I'll
help the Apple iPhone users then the Android Users.
For Apple users, use the following
instructions to stop FB from tracking you and displaying their annoying ads
while you browse or play games:
1.
Go
to Settings
2.
Select
Privacy
3.
Select
Advertising
4.
Select
Limit ad Tracking
Now to
disable the Facebook ads on Google Android smartphones:
1.
Go
to Settings
2.
Select
Accounts & Synch
3.
Select
Google
4.
Select
Ads
5.
Select
Opt out of Interest Based Ads
For Google
Chrome users, I've got you covered:
1.
Click
the three dots in the upper right corner
2.
Scroll
down to advanced settings
3.
Scroll
down further
4.
Select
checkbox labled Send “Do Not Track”
request with your browsing traffic
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But this is
in your Devices. What about Facebook itself? Can you stop them tracking you
from within Facebook?
How to disable Facebook's Targeted
Ads - Disabling Facebook at Source as Deletion is an Option
For this,
you'll need to log into Facebook on a Desktop computer and change a few
settings as show in the video.
The steps
are as follows:
1.
Select
Settings from the drop down menu
2.
Click
Ads in the Left column
3.
Click
on Ads on Apps and Websites off of
Facebook companies
4.
Select
No in the Drop Down menu
5.
Select
Ads based on use of websites and Apps
6.
Select
Off in the Drop Down menu
7.
Select
Ads of my Social Actions
8.
Select
No One in the Drop Down menu
9.
Select
Ads based on my preferences
10. Go through the list and
deselect the preference you don't want FB tracking
Once this
done, you would have stopped Facebook completely in its tracks without having
to resort to using Ad blocker! Remember, you can always remove Facebook and
Facebook Messenger as use the Web or WAP version as explained in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
to stop Facebook and Messenger from draining your battery”
Sharing is
Caring so share this article with as many of your friends who need help with
Facebook!
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