There are a few privacy concerns about Facebook but Today I want to take a look at the Off-facebook activities. If it is called off-facebook, why do Facebook still have your data for activities carried outside of Facebook? Well, you can see a detailed video here:
What this implies is that Facebook collects (or shares) data from all third-party that uses any of their tools (this third-party ranges from App developers to advertisers). Examples of the tools are Facebook SDK, Facebook Pixel etc.
The more important or annoying part if you were, is that even Paid Android apps etc (MX player Pro) were sharing usage data with Facebook funny enough, there is nothing in the app that links it to Facebook.
To make matters worse, I tried to view the my activity data shared with Facebook by some of these App developers and there was no details at all.
Anyways, go to https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/
And turn it off for yourself or you can see the video for more details
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Hi guys, I want you to tell me what are the apps you recommend having on Android, I think I'm missing a lot of them thats why I create this thread.
Everything, from security to customization.
Twitter or WeChat
some Weather app
Netease Cloud Music
some Navigator app
S Health
amazon appstore or amazon underground
some bank app
......
unity
unity remote
Authy or some other authenticator app to enable 2 factor authentication. you NEED this on at least your email. This can save you thousands of dollars years from now, if someone gets access to your email (very easy though most older recovery options, name of your dog, your mothers maiden name, the street you grew up on, etc).
A mobile scanner app. I am liking officelens 90% of the time.
Pocketcasts for podcasts
Smart audiobook reader
Lastpass(my favorite) or any other password manager(1password, keepass, etc). You should never use the same password twice, same reason as item number 1
Save your local area in maps options, this will save you lots of data and speed up maps by a lot sometimes.
Y'all would have heard about Facebook's Free Basics app which lets you browse the internet (selected sites) for free. I can browse Facebook indefinitely without pictures/videos. If I want to see the any media, I'll have to use my data package I bought from the telecomm company. In the Messenger app, I can send photos and videos, but I can only view photos, no videos.
But SOMETIMES, the app malfunctions. It doesn't show any errors or anything, but I get to view photos on Facebook for free. Basically, free internet. You get where I'm going?
So, would it be possible to recreate this scenario intentionally, or modify the .apk file to get the same/better results?
I think the app is different country to country/service provider to service provider, so I'm gonna attach the .apk file I have.
Whether you are concerned about Privacy or just that Facebook is consuming most of your limited mobile data, these 10 settings got you covered.
Well, if You log into the Facebook App (in this case Android App) here are my top 10 settings that you should Change and my reason for telling you to change it.
#1 SAVE YOUR LOGIN INFO (ON THIS DEVICE)
DON'T DO IT at least for security reasons. If you log out of the device, your login info still remains there if you didn't wipe Facebook app data and that could lead to a security breach.
#2 TURN OFF LOCATION.
Facebook uses your location for mainly ads and other kind of profiling so, always turn it off. That doesn't mean that Facebook won't know your location but at least they'll have to do a little more work to Get it (as I'll show later)
#3 TURN OFF START VIDEO IN TIMELINE WITH SOUND FROM SETTINGS
Anyway, this mainly serves Facebook interest were ads that pop up on timeline plays Automatically. At least, give yourself the chance of being the one to click on an ad because the title is catchy or the thumbnail interesting.
#4 TURN ON OPEN LINKS EXTERNALLY.
You should be the one to choose which browser opens URLS from inside Facebook App. If not, Facebook will automatically track your browsing history, activities and behaviors
#5 CLEAR YOUR BROWSING HISTORY
Since you have turned on open links externally, it is important that you also clear any browsing history left on Facebook.
#6 AUTO PLAY VIDEOS ON MOBILE DATA AND WIFI
May not be bad if you are on unlimited data plan but come on, on mobile data too? by default? Not a good news if you are on limited data. Moreso, this dumps a lot of data on app cache.
#7 & #8 ADS PREFERENCES
Ads Preferences setting is interesting because it has a lot of settings on by default that makes you want to wonder why they are on by default. There are two major parts I looked at here - Your information and Ads settings you just have to turn everything off.
#9 OFF-FACEBOOK ACTIVITIES - TURN IT OFF!
This one is so deep we made a YouTube video for it you just have to turn it off.
#10 Privacy settings.
There are loads of settings in the privacy settings that you need to change by default. You really need this one...
Bolumstar said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= https://youtu.be/GHlxCvJHkmY
Whether you are concerned about Privacy or just that Facebook is consuming most of your limited mobile data, these 10 settings got you covered.
Well, if You log into the Facebook App (in this case Android App) here are my top 10 settings that you should Change and my reason for telling you to change it.
#1 SAVE YOUR LOGIN INFO (ON THIS DEVICE)
DON'T DO IT at least for security reasons. If you log out of the device, your login info still remains there if you didn't wipe Facebook app data and that could lead to a security breach.
#2 TURN OFF LOCATION.
Facebook uses your location for mainly ads and other kind of profiling so, always turn it off. That doesn't mean that Facebook won't know your location but at least they'll have to do a little more work to Get it (as I'll show later)
#3 TURN OFF START VIDEO IN TIMELINE WITH SOUND FROM SETTINGS
Anyway, this mainly serves Facebook interest were ads that pop up on timeline plays Automatically. At least, give yourself the chance of being the one to click on an ad because the title is catchy or the thumbnail interesting.
#4 TURN ON OPEN LINKS EXTERNALLY.
You should be the one to choose which browser opens URLS from inside Facebook App. If not, Facebook will automatically track your browsing history, activities and behaviors
#5 CLEAR YOUR BROWSING HISTORY
Since you have turned on open links externally, it is important that you also clear any browsing history left on Facebook.
#6 AUTO PLAY VIDEOS ON MOBILE DATA AND WIFI
May not be bad if you are on unlimited data plan but come on, on mobile data too? by default? Not a good news if you are on limited data. Moreso, this dumps a lot of data on app cache.
#7 & #8 ADS PREFERENCES
Ads Preferences setting is interesting because it has a lot of settings on by default that makes you want to wonder why they are on by default. There are two major parts I looked at here - Your information and Ads settings you just have to turn everything off.
#9 OFF-FACEBOOK ACTIVITIES - TURN IT OFF!
This one is so deep we made a YouTube video for it you just have to turn it off.
#10 Privacy settings.
There are loads of settings in the privacy settings that you need to change by default. You really need this one...
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What great advices thank you
Or else, uninstall the Facebook crap and use a browser with an ad-blocker to access. Better yet, delete the application altogether. With the number of times, Facebook has leaked user data, I would advise to not use it at all.
arsenalfan001 said:
Or else, uninstall the Facebook crap and use a browser with an ad-blocker to access. Better yet, delete the application altogether. With the number of times, Facebook has leaked user data, I would advise to not use it at all.
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The post is actually for people who, for some reasons, still use Facebook... ?
The thread title says it all. I have found several articles through Google that all turn out to be incorrect since they indicate there is an option on the battey page which doesn't seem to exist on my phone. Not seeing anything that looks like it might control this going through the various "Settings."
I just got the pop-up that said that a bunch of apps were getting their permissions removed because I haven't used them in awhile. I live in Colorado where the current temperature is 2 degrees F. There are several apps like Star Walk that I won't use again until it's warmer. I don't want these restricted nor do I want to go through giving them back permissions. How do I turn off the auto-disable function?
Thanks,
Dave
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Not what I'm looking for. I just want to turn off the unused app auto-disable function on my phone.