Stopping Facebook’s tracking is much harder than it seems—here’s what you need to do…
And so, millions of users are now going further, deciding that it’s better to stop using Facebook altogether, to safeguard their privacy and banish all this tracking from their online lives. And if that’s the case, Facebook offers two options.
The more brutal approach is to “delete” your account entirely, an irreversible step that will permanently delete “your profile, photos, posts, videos and everything else you've added.” And if you use Facebook to access other services, Oculus for example, then you risk losing everything there as well.
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. From a privacy perspective, deactivating a Facebook account is fairly pointless. Facebook will continue to build your profile, to associate any tracking with your identity, to harvest your Off Facebook activity, just as though you hadn’t made any changes at all.Whether your Facebook account is active or deactivated, the platform is tracking you.
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