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Spain is one of the first countries in which Facebook has launched its long-awaited disconnection function: Clear activity history from outside FacebookA tool with which to root out the relationships between your Facebook account and the web pages and applications that are linked to each other at some point. All this to be able to manage the user's privacy more efficiently. And it is that, thanks to cases such as Cambridge Analytica, it has been demonstrated that it is nothing but a possible door through which to filter and put the user's privacy at risk.
Now, a year and a half after Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced this measure, he is beginning to be present in different countries. Spain, South Korea and Ireland are the chosen ones. But soon, in the next few months, it will begin to be available to many others. Always trying to bring good performance to all those. That's why they'll take it easy, confirming that the new options work as they should.
Step by Step
The first thing you should do is make sure that the function is available in your terminal. To do this, go to Facebook and display the settings in the tab with the three stripes, at the top right of the whole. Here you must go down the list until you find the section Settings and privacy, almost at the end. Open it and access the Settings section.
In this new screen you must look for the section Your Facebook information.You will find it thanks to the icon of a key, along with four other sections. Among them should be Off-Facebook Activity or Activity outside Facebook If you have this section inside, there will be a button with the function Clean History or Clear History
If you still don't have the function, all you have to do is wait. As we say, Facebook is opening the season to users in Spain, but gradually Making sure everything works as it should. Check this section eventually to see if this new section appears in the Facebook settings.
If you have the Activity section outside Facebook, you can take a look at all the web pages and applications that send information to your accountDo not worry if you see services and websites that you have never accessed.It is probably because you have used your Facebook account on a computer where someone else has searched, for example. Up to that level Facebook has been able to collect information that other websites and services have been able to know.
Well, all you have to do is click on the Clear history button so that Facebook stops collecting your personal data and transmitting it to these companies, applications and web pages. The good thing is that we can choose the services and applications with which to cut relations, in case we want to keep the information available to any of them.
What happens if I clear my activity history outside of Facebook
For Facebook, the focus now seems to be on the user and the way he manages his privacy. Of course, several scandals have been needed for this. That is why he is willing to shake the pillars of some businesses that are based on this social network so that the user can go unnoticed by them.That is, they do not collect your information.
Therefore, according to Facebook, by deleting your off-Facebook activity history the company will remove all identifying information that apps and websites choose to send youThey will not know what web pages you visit or what you do on them, and they will not make these tools to show specific on Facebook, Instagram or Facebook Messenger. Or at least that's what they say on their official blog.
