Monday, March 26, 2018

94 | Facebook can still track you after you delete your account – here’s how to stop it, March 23, 2018


Facebook’s latest privacy scandal is nothing compared to its powerful advertising system that follows you around the internet. Even deleting your account may not be enough to stop it from snooping on you.

The tool, known as Audience Network, uses bits of code – including tags, pixels, and cookies – to collect information on you to build a digital self – even if you don’t have a Facebook profile.

It also allows thousands of third-party apps to feed off this data from its users.

And while Facebook took similar measures to shut out apps from access to its data-sharing tools in 2015, the Audience Network continues to thrive.

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