Turn Off Facebook's "Link History"
Just another way to track you all across the web
Have you seen these notices on your Facebook lately? Facebook wants to 'help’ you by tracking all the links you visit — your “link history.”
We routinely turn off all tracking, history links, location data, and any other settings we can find to cut down on the ubiquitous, automatic tracking Big Tech does when you are running around online.
Do this:
On your mobile Facebook app, tap any link to open Facebook’s built-in mobile browser.
Tap the three dots in the bottom (or top right, then tap Go to Settings.
Tap the toggle next to Allow link history, then tap Don’t allow to confirm.
Facebook says “when you turn link history off, we will immediately clear your link history, and you will no longer be able to see any links you’ve visited. Additionally, we won’t save your link history or use it to improve your ads across Meta technologies.”
Note, they also say “When you turn link history off, it may take Meta up to 90 days to complete the deletion process….”