Facebook: how to regain control of your news feed

The same button allows you to protect yourself one day against the use of your profile in advertisements on external sites. It doesn’t cost anything to do !

Our 6 tips to limit advertising on your Facebook account

The conditions of use of the social network have changed since January 1. Here is the procedure to restrict your exhibition to unsolicited advertisements. While waiting for Facebook to make an effort to explain them more …

VWe have control “ Facebook praising on a page dedicated to the confidentiality of its users. And it is true that the social network has put new features online to configure the advertisements received by these users since the change of its conditions of use on January 1, 2015.

But they are sometimes well hidden, presented in texts to approximate French … and absolutely do not allow to escape the announcements. So here are our tips for restricting advertising as much as possible.

No longer add pages and interest to your profile

If you are really allergic to advertisements, start by refraining from loving pages and adding interest to your profile. These are all indications provided to Facebook to better target you.

Choose your advertisements

The latest version of Facebook allows you to indicate your advertising choices. The big novelty is that you can now hide an advertisement type that you no longer want to see by clicking at the top right. Three choices are then available to you: “I don’t want to see that”, “Do not follow X”, “Hide everything from the brand”. You also have the possibility of knowing why this or that ad is displayed on your account by clicking on “Manage your advertising preferences”.

Evade social modules

Go to the “Facebook advertisements” page in the app or on the site. You will find two parameters to modulate. The first paragraph entitled Third -party sites concerns social modules (buttons I love and share, integrated publications, comments space). The “Modify” button allows you to prevent your data to be used on sites with Facebook social modules.

The same button allows you to protect yourself one day against the use of your profile in advertisements on external sites. It doesn’t cost anything to do !

Withdraw from social advertisements

“Everyone wants to know what their friends like. This is why we associate advertisements with friends “. If you have understood this charabia intended to inform you, you are lucky. This second paragraph of the page “Facebook advertisements”, and entitled Advertisements and friends, in fact concerns “social advertisements”, that is to say personalizing advertisements via comments or user recommendations.

So, to prevent your name from being used to promote a brand on your friends’ accounts, again click on “modify”. Then you can choose that your actions are associated with pubs seen by your friends … or not.

Avoid targeted advertising

Facebook is now practicing “extended targeting” on its French site as it has already done for more than six months in the United States. It is a question of scrutinizing the activities of its users out of its site in order to refine its ads. To avoid this, two possibilities.

The first is to go to the setting settings of your smartphone. Under iOS, it is then enough to go to “confidentiality”, then to “advertising” and to deactivate “limited advertising monitoring”.

On Android, you must access the settings of your Google account, to click on “Ads”, before deactivating the announcements by centers of interest.

There is another way to do so via the European Digital Advertising Alliance site. Click on “Check your cookies”. A list of sites likely to practice advertising targeting will then be displayed. And you will be able to deactivate this practice concerning Facebook. But beware, this will only be valid on the condition of always using the same internet browser.

Reset your advertising profile

Another useful feature on Android and iOS, the possibility of resetting the advertising identification that puts your profile zero ..

Facebook: how to regain control of your news feed

How to see Facebook publications that really interest you ? Here are some tips to help you.

Estelle Raffin / Published on October 6, 2022 at 11:09 am

Whether on Facebook or Instagram, many users complain about their news feed which is no longer as interesting as before: less visibility for friends’ publications, more advertisements, too many suggestions of unrelevant posts , loss of chronological thread for the benefit of algorithm ..

Facebook is just starting to hear user feedbacks, and has just announced new features to personalize your news feed. It will notably be possible to click on “Show more” or “Show less” below a publication to show what really interests us. You can also tell Facebook what type of publications you want to see in your main news feed in priority: friends, groups or pages.

While waiting for these new features, if you are part of the dissatisfied and want to regain control of your news feed more against the Facebook algorithm, discover our advice below to achieve it !

1. Add your friends or Facebook pages in favorites

On Facebook, you can add up to 30 friends or pages to your Favorite. What is interesting is that Facebook will first display their publications on your news feed. Good to know: your friends will not receive a notification when you add or delete them.

To add people in favorites:

• Click on the three small points “…” at the top right of any publication of your news feed,
• Options are displayed, click at the bottom on Manage your thread,
• Click on Favorite, Enter the names of your friends in the search bar to add them to your Favorite.

2. Quickly unsubscribe from several friends or pages

Good resolution: take 2 minutes to sort through your subscriptions. This will also allow you to get a more relevant news feed. Good to know: people are not notified when you unsubscribe.

To easily unsubscribe with several accounts:

• Click on the three small points “…” at the top right of any publication of your news feed,
• Options are displayed, click at the bottom on Manage your thread,
• Click on unsubscribe,
• Scroll the screen a little to reveal the search bar,
• Enter in the search bar the names of friends, pages or groups for which you want to unsubscribe,
• Click on the account, a light blue circle appears to tell you that you are well unsubscribed.

3. Hide publications or pages

You are scrolling down your news feed, and you come across a suggestion of account of the Facebook algorithm that does not really interest you or that you do not necessarily want to see right now ?

By clicking on the three small points “…” of the publication, you can:

1. Hide publication: You will see less similar posts.
2. Hide the account for 30 days: You will no longer see posts of this account during this period.
3. Hide everything from account name :: You will never see any publications of this account again.

4. Go through the tab Son In the Facebook menu

Facebook recently deployed a new tab named son in the menu sound bar that is displayed when you open the application (bottom on the iPhone, top on Android smartphones). By going through this tab, you access news wires dedicated to the different types of accounts: All (chronological thread), Friends, groups, pages And Favorite.

Thus, you can consult all the most recent publications thanks to the section All, or consult only the publications of your loved ones via the section Friends. Discover below an overview of the tab interface Son.

5. Like or comment on publications that you appreciate

Everything is controlled by the Facebook algorithm … If you cannot completely thwart it, we can still give it relevant information. So, if you read or comment on the publications that arouse the most interest in your eyes, this will give positive signals to the algorithm that will push similar content in your news in the future.