Even if you don’t enter data into Facebook/Meta directly, they may be getting data from other games/music apps/etc.
How to check
- Navigate to the
Accounts Centermenu.- Instagram: open your profile page > 3 bar menu >
Settings>Accounts Center - Messenger: 3 bar menu > gear icon > scroll to bottom >
Accounts Center
- Instagram: open your profile page > 3 bar menu >
Your information and permissionsYour activity off Meta technologies
There should also be an option for Manage future activity
I use some apps to communicate with family, and clearly my privacy protections weren’t as good as I thought they were. I set things up a long time ago, so I imagine something changed since then.
I’m considering of either sending the apps to the work profile, or switching to only using them in the browser. If it’s because I connected my account to the other service at some point, I don’t know how to sever that connection now aside from dropping that other game/app/service
Or just stop using Meta services all together.
Ok, let me just cut off my entire family and friend circle out of my life just to stick it to some corpo that doesn’t even care about me. I sure showed 'em!
I mean god forbid using regular text and phone with them is out of the question.
SMS is less secure and arguably less private.
And RCS on top of not being available in a lot of places, is a closed standard, no matter how Google tries to spin it.
No it’s not. Get the spec here: https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/networks/rcs/universal-profile/#download
Okay, and now find a messaging app that supports RCS that isn’t Google or Samsung messages.
Being stuck to 2 apps, one of which is OEM exclusive sure defeats the point, now doesn’t it?
The only SMS I’ve gotten in the last 5 years are the double authentication ones. WhatsApp is the default way of texting in many countries. Outside of the US, when you ask people to stop using WhatsApp, chances are you are asking them to give up texting entirely. Which you must realize is complicated to say the least
Direct link to the page in question
https://accountscenter.facebook.com/info_and_permissions/off_facebook_activity/
And, of course, they want you to login or sign up to be able to read that page.
It physically hurts me to say anything in facebook’s defence, but to be fair this is an account centre link to an account config page
