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    How to exclude your pictures from Third-party Facebook Ads

    Facebook currently uses your pictures from your photo albums in their third-party advertisements on your friends' pages. According to Facebook, they justify this by saying: "Facebook Ads make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends."

    While your pictures never actually leave the circle of your friends, I still don't want my friends to be tricked into advertisements for products or services that I don't personally endorse. To me, this isn't a privacy issue, just one on principle.

    So here is how you remove your pictures from your friends' ads:


     

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    1. HOVER over Settings in the upper right corner of your Facebook page, next to your name and a drop down should appear. Click on Privacy Settings.

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    2. Click on News Feed and Wall.

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    3. Click on the Facebook Ads tab.


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    4. From the drop down*, choose No one.

    *I should say that for me, I had to use another browser to get this page (Google Chrome in my case) because for some reason in Firefox 3.5.1 my Facebook Ads page was completely blank.

    • 24 July 2009
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    I normally ramble about food, tech, photography and tennis (they're the things i love).

    Who am I? I'm a Software developer who loves to cook and play tennis. I also spend way too much absorbing the internet...i really should step away.

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  • About David Machiavello

    I normally ramble about food, tech, photography and tennis (they're the things i love).

    Who am I? I'm a Software developer who loves to cook and play tennis. I also spend way too much absorbing the internet...i really should step away.

    Where else can you find me?
    Our Wedding Site
    Twitter
    Facebook
    Flickr Photos

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