I see no reason to believe these settings have any effect, but they're worth trying. I'm reminded of this little image I made some years ago. - ThreadSky

robpike.io • 7 days ago

I see no reason to believe these settings have any effect, but they're worth trying.

I'm reminded of this little image I made some years ago.

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robbedoflife.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wouldn't it just be easier to delete your account instead?

resham.bsky.social•6 days ago

If y'all want a marketplace appreciative, I'm building https://momfia.ai. No bots, no spam, just buy/sell/share in your community.

trevorpk.bsky.social•7 days ago

Is that 'Ignore this Setting' button a logical paradox, like the page with 'This page is blank' written on it?

quiltysue.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thanks for the advice

bicyclebaskets.bsky.social•7 days ago

I don’t do Facebook. Quit it 13 years ago. Do not miss it.

gmsoros.bsky.social•7 days ago

2016 and I don’t miss it.
I need friends text them

princeofsass.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm killing my FB by New Years.

dragonscholar.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've tried all of those steps & even returned every calendar quarter to recheck. It has very little effect. In spite of my last go-round with these settings, ~16 days ago, the things now popping up in the FB feed are very pointedly 'personalized.' Even stuff I've only ever viewed HERE!

boomer76.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thank you.

gammiekaren.bsky.social•6 days ago

Done!

89vol.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just dump it f facebk use a phone call someone

dantheguitarman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Done.

camashta4.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or maybe delete Facebook

juliecumberland.bsky.social•6 days ago

I did this and am seeing almost no ads now. Not sure how much it takes from his pocket, but worth it if it’s even a dime a day.

ghep.bsky.social•6 days ago

People are still on Facebook?? 😂

marktmcgahey.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's easy to say just delete it if you are coming here from X, but billions of people who prefer the curated friend list format only have FB. There's no Bluesky equivalent for them yet.

hanserikiken.bsky.social•6 days ago

It is even better not to log into that account anymore.

rallyh0.bsky.social•6 days ago

These options are to give us the illusion of privacy/control. Mark my words, they will be found in the future to be disregarding these settings in order to profit from selling off collected data and get a small slap on the wrist of a fine that they won't even have to pay.

gmsoros.bsky.social•7 days ago

Most people can do away with meta fb, unless it is for business purposes

poopooturnip.bsky.social•6 days ago

shit better not turn it off

w-ls.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just don’t use it. Or better go delete your account.

masterninjadad.bsky.social•7 days ago

Delete all meta!!!!! Don't give them one more fucking second of your time or information. Fuck the fascist!
Fucking fuck!

gmsoros.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s an addiction that got us into this mess crap. One doesn’t need meta - it’s doesn’t promote good community support

candylh.bsky.social•6 days ago

I couldn’t find these settings in Facebook, how do I find ad preferences?

dpbsmith.bsky.social•6 days ago

Many years ago I tried to use Facebook's privacy settings, but I discovered that they keep moving them around in their menu tree and changing what they do and never making it clear exactly what they actually do. Decided it was a con and quit wasting my time.

slorxx41.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you. Helpful.

nedraza.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you for sharing this! 😊

onesneakycat.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's good to be cynical of these settings because you're absolutely right. They are meaningless.

No different than a crosswalk button at an intersection or the close door on an elevator.

It's the belief of being in control these options exist, not that they work.

zanaso.bsky.social•6 days ago

Follow this one step to avoid them profiting off of you: Stop using their shit, children. Either you support their evil empire or you don't. If you don't, leave. If you don't leave, you support their evil empire. Simply being there adds value.

zanaso.bsky.social•6 days ago

Plus like, the fuck kind of sense does it make to continue using a service you want to knee in the junk financially? End game is taking the whole thing down so... let's stay in the burning building?

callmedon.bsky.social•6 days ago

Better yet: delete your account, delete the app, and never go there again.

fitzj74.bsky.social•6 days ago

It doesn’t work only deplatforming does.

benkritz.bsky.social•6 days ago

I know one surefire way to limit Facebook's ability to profit off you, and that's not to use friggin Facebook at all.

torsade.bsky.social•6 days ago

I tried FB. It was cheesy-looking. It didn't protect my acct from someone changing location settings. I deleted it some years ago.

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•6 days ago

.. um just delete the App.. way easier

motherrebel.bsky.social•6 days ago

Leave and delete the app and your data. No reason to be there.

badasscounselor.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you!

drummmergirl.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thanks! Apparently I had already done 2/3 of these reps. I’ve been trying for weeks to cancel my account altogether but they’re making that impossible.

dabytch.bsky.social•6 days ago

I can't find those settings. Because I deleted that shit.
Resistance could be inconvenient.

flangelalansbury.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes I did all but one of the settings one I did not know was there so thanks for pointing that out I’ve now done all three.

jonnyjackets.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just delete Meta.. problem solved!

mbigenwald.bsky.social•6 days ago

Easier to delete Facebook.

craigrcarl.bsky.social•6 days ago

My Facebook account was hacked, and I ain't goin' back. Bluesky is where it's at.

candacezoe.bsky.social•6 days ago

Even better, I just deleted Facebook.

1sorefoot.bsky.social•7 days ago

I did a different 3 step process .
1. Close account.
2. Delete all Meta apps
3. Enjoyed doing it

marcelwastaken.bsky.social•7 days ago

do you have dopamine or something

hiddenbadger.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think I am at this point nearly. Facebook sucks. Politics has ruined it. I’m on #bluesky to try and get away from it, but it’s all over here too!

lozreada.bsky.social•6 days ago

Reality is that for a lot of people, politics is now what has driven most people to leave meta platforms for something that aligns better ethically. Whether you like it or not, we're all being political, we all have to get political, otherwise politics will do us. Rise up. Find the good political.

marcelwastaken.bsky.social•6 days ago

Laura, I don't think you understand, I understand the first part but then when you said the second part immediately my eyeballs popped out, I thought you were on our team.

hiddenbadger.bsky.social•6 days ago

Politicians forgot a long time ago that they serve us, not the other way around. They need to stfu and deliver instead of think they are celebrities.

marcelwastaken.bsky.social•6 days ago

ikr its sad in my opinion

kermiethedj.bsky.social•6 days ago

thanks i had missed some of those.

ramblinro.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do it!!

kyledsilva.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just leave Meta. #fuckzuck

modernhitchhiker.bsky.social•6 days ago

Best way for them to not profit?

Don't use the services.

It's difficult, but I'm going on 6 mos since I cut the cord and it's SO worth it. It gets easier.

emkaydub.bsky.social•6 days ago

I only keep the account as 1. the oldest address book ever and 2. See who’s weird enough to still be on fb and post HB! on my page 🥳🥸😂

dc8487.bsky.social•6 days ago

better yet...just #DeleteFBaccount and #DeleteInstagram

hyrosen.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why in the world would you want to prevent Meta from profiting? They're providing you with a free service.

curiousbets.bsky.social•7 days ago

My personal information isn't free

hyrosen.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sure it is. Things you do in public are available for others to see and use.

tommybreezy.bsky.social•6 days ago

If all information supplied to these aps were titled "Public Info" and nowhere did it say "Private Info", you might have a point.

hyrosen.bsky.social•6 days ago

When you post something on social media, you are speaking in public. When you buy something from a retailer, your purchase is public to the seller. When you walk outside, you may be followed by people, cameras, drones. Observing the world and accumulating information is science.

witsy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Because it’s a Russian propaganda machine. Probably like you.

hyrosen.bsky.social•6 days ago

Then don't use it?

snoopsqueak.com•6 days ago

If Facebook is a Russian propaganda machine, which seems likely given the evidence, no American should be using it.

Every person who cares about ANYTHING should make sure that every other person in the world knows the danger. If they did, no one would use it, and we would all be safer & better off.

hyrosen.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is nonsense, of course. It's a bunch of people butthurt that a company isn't behaving in the way they want, spinning conspiracy theories to self-soothe.

snoopsqueak.com•6 days ago

It is not nonsense. Be very careful about what you believe. All of our lives are at stake.

If you somehow haven't heard, Trump is an actual Russian asset.

Facebook, Twitter, and others were weaponized against the American people.

Look for yourself. The truth holds up from every *honest* angle.

dr-ann1953.bsky.social•6 days ago

Delete Facebook and other fascist-owned media:
Washington Post
LATimes
X

MSNBC- WTF???!!!

unabatedtuna.bsky.social•6 days ago

The only way to make yourself less valuable to meta is to not use meta products. Otherwise, your feeding then data.

bouter88.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thank you

klberts.bsky.social•6 days ago

I dumped FB completely over a month ago. It got to be a total joke.

marknyes.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nah. Just get off FB. Dump it. It's a little bit hard, nobody wants to throw away stuff they've done for years, but it's just not worth it anymore.

ashishnagar.bsky.social•6 days ago

Deleted the FB and Insta app from my phone and the accounts 5 years ago. Best life sanity hack ever.

samoart.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just leave there please

thepointbeing.bsky.social•6 days ago

If you’re still on facebook get the hell off! 3 yrs free!

bonelesskimchii.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m off that steaming pile of donkey turds, thank you for helping the others deal. ✅

inventreinvent.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am still on fb I have to be for work and family and international. However it terrifies me b/c I also create my own stuff that is for me and my people, not for them to steal while I’m just trying to get the word out.

Thank you so much and wonderful John Oliver is spotlighting this.

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