{"id":2713,"date":"2022-01-27T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/deactivating-vs-deleting-facebook-heres-the-difference-forbes\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:17:13","slug":"deactivating-vs-deleting-facebook-heres-the-difference-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/deactivating-vs-deleting-facebook-heres-the-difference-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Deactivating Vs Deleting Facebook\u2014Here\u2019s The Difference &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>The scale of Facebook\u2019s data harvesting and tracking has been exposed this year, by whistleblowers and Apple\u2019s privacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/11\/20\/apple-iphone-privacy-feature-now-on-google-and-samsung-android-phones\/?sh=3313d22014ea\" target=\"_self\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/11\/20\/apple-iphone-privacy-feature-now-on-google-and-samsung-android-phones\/?sh=3313d22014ea\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/11\/20\/apple-iphone-privacy-feature-now-on-google-and-samsung-android-phones\/?sh=3313d22014ea\" aria-label=\"crack down\" rel=\"noopener\">crack down<\/a>. Now Facebook has been rated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/20\/facebook-aka-meta-voted-worst-company-of-2021-in-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/20\/facebook-aka-meta-voted-worst-company-of-2021-in-survey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/20\/facebook-aka-meta-voted-worst-company-of-2021-in-survey\/\" aria-label=\"the worst company of the year\">the worst company of the year<\/a>\u201d in a new survey. If all this makes you want to stop the social media giant tracking your activity, be warned, it\u2019s harder than it seems.<br \/>Much of Facebook\u2019s tracking takes place behind the scenes. We have already exposed its continued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/10\/16\/apple-user-warning-stop-facebook-secretly-tracking-your-iphone-12-iphone-13\/?sh=3215418546ff\" target=\"_self\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/10\/16\/apple-user-warning-stop-facebook-secretly-tracking-your-iphone-12-iphone-13\/?sh=3215418546ff\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/10\/16\/apple-user-warning-stop-facebook-secretly-tracking-your-iphone-12-iphone-13\/?sh=3215418546ff\" aria-label=\"location harvesting\" rel=\"noopener\">location harvesting<\/a> when users disable location tracking on both the platform and their app settings, and for using its apps to constantly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/10\/23\/apple-iphone-users-delete-facebook-app-after-new-tracking-warning\/?sh=f5771185930f\" target=\"_self\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/10\/23\/apple-iphone-users-delete-facebook-app-after-new-tracking-warning\/?sh=f5771185930f\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/10\/23\/apple-iphone-users-delete-facebook-app-after-new-tracking-warning\/?sh=f5771185930f\" aria-label=\"track phone movements\" rel=\"noopener\">track phone movements<\/a> without any warning to affected users.<br \/>Apple\u2019s privacy innovations have brought increasing scrutiny to Facebook\u2019s spider\u2019s web of trackers that follow users across apps and websites. This \u201cOff Facebook Activity\u201d is a harmless sounding description for a nefarious ecosystem that embeds trackers behind third-party apps and websites as they profile users.<br \/>It\u2019s this type of tracking that has been most firmly in Apple\u2019s sights\u2014primarily because it\u2019s hidden and secretive by its very nature. The huge hit Facebook has taken to its revenues and advertising machine have been a powerful indicator as to just how exposed we all are by the ad-oriented web and app ecosystems we rely on.<br \/>Facebook offers a range of options to curtail this tracking, including disabling \u201cOff Facebook\u201d activity tracking, denying app tracking permission on your Apple devices, checking permission settings whether you\u2019re on Android or iOS and restricting your browser permissions to disable tracking cookies.<br \/>But as we\u2019ve shown before, just changing settings doesn\u2019t kill all this tracking. Using Facebook\u2019s own apps and websites, engaging with the social media platform itself, using Messenger or Instagram or even WhatsApp (to a much lesser extent) will continue to build your profile, adding daily activities into the mix.<br \/>And so, millions of users are now going further, deciding that it\u2019s better to stop using Facebook altogether, to safeguard their privacy and banish all this tracking from their online lives. And if that\u2019s the case, Facebook offers two options. <br \/>You can \u201cdeactivate\u201d your account, giving you the option to regain access to your friends and other content if you change your mind in the future, albeit your profile will disappear from view, and you\u2019ll lose access to your account while it\u2019s deactivated.<br \/>The more brutal approach is to \u201cdelete\u201d your account entirely, an irreversible step that will permanently delete \u201cyour profile, photos, posts, videos and everything else you&rsquo;ve added.\u201d And if you use Facebook to access other services, Oculus for example, then you risk losing everything there as well.<br \/>Given the stark nature to this deletion, many users opt to deactivate their accounts instead, assuming that this cryogenic state will protect their privacy while keeping years of historic data intact should they ever change their minds. <br \/>Unfortunately, it\u2019s not that simple. From a privacy perspective, deactivating a Facebook account is fairly pointless. Facebook will continue to build your profile, to associate any tracking with your identity, to harvest your Off Facebook activity, just as though you hadn\u2019t made any changes at all.<br \/>Deactivation Vs Deletion<br \/>Whether your Facebook account is active or deactivated, the platform is tracking you. And while there are settings you can change, the onus is on you to delve into each of those options to ensure that you disable the ones that matter, this despite being told at every step why such tracking is beneficial to you. In reality, Facebook knows that most users will not bother to change settings hidden behind multi-layered menu options. <br \/>Apple\u2019s game-changing innovation this year has been to simplify such privacy choices for its own users\u2014do you want to be tracked, yes or no? Facebook, Google and others who live off the algorithmic revenues from such tracking do nothing of the sort. <br \/>Imagine those platforms offering one simple toggle\u2014tracking, yes or no? Imagine if regulators enforced such a privacy choice, negating the need for users to select the right OS, the right browser, the right app privacy settings, the right platform tracking settings, the right location permissions, etc, etc, to deliver that single result. It\u2019s almost as though, despite all the privacy virtue signaling, it\u2019s still deliberately difficult.<br \/>Off Facebook Activity<br \/>If you do want to stop Facebook\u2019s tracking, you have two options. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/287199741901674?helpref=faq_content\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/287199741901674?helpref=faq_content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/287199741901674?helpref=faq_content\" aria-label=\"clear your Off Facebook history\">clear your Off Facebook history<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1224342157705160?helpref=faq_content\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1224342157705160?helpref=faq_content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1224342157705160?helpref=faq_content\" aria-label=\"disable future Off Facebook tracking\">disable future Off Facebook tracking<\/a>, as well as checking permissions for apps and services provided by Facebook itself, and then you can deactivate your account; or, much more simply, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/224562897555674\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/224562897555674\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/224562897555674\" aria-label=\"delete your account\">delete your account<\/a>, which purges the profile at the center of all this tracking and gives you a fresh, clean start.<br \/>If you do schedule your account for deletion after 30 days, then you\u2019ll need to ensure you don\u2019t accidentally log back in through a Facebook site or app or somewhere else associated with your Facebook credentials. That can stall the process and then you\u2019ll need to go right back to beginning, and start the deletion over again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/12\/28\/apple-iphone-google-android-and-window-10-11-user-warning-on-facebook-tracking\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scale of Facebook\u2019s data harvesting and tracking has been exposed this year, by whistleblowers and Apple\u2019s privacy crack down. Now Facebook has been rated \u201cthe worst company of the year\u201d in a new survey. If all this makes you want to stop the social media giant tracking your activity, be warned, it\u2019s harder than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}