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![]() ![]() "I feel as though reason has been restored," she writes. Writing on Medium, Elan Morgan tried the opposite approach: instead of using the like button, she left nice comments on things instead. Not only that, but his endless liking polluted his friends' feeds too.įacebook's privacy settings can limit who sees you and the things you post When Wired's Mat Honan decided to hit like on every single thing posted to his Facebook news feed, his friends' posts quickly disappeared under an avalanche of advertising and political extremism. Unfortunately those likes make a huge difference to what you see on Facebook. Annoyingly, competitions often make it a condition of entry, and sometimes clicking like on a friends' post is a good way of indicating approval without getting into a conversation about it. It's easy to end up liking lots of stuff. One source of Facebook spam might be you - or rather, your use of the like button. Click on the arrow at the top right hand corner of an unwanted ad and choose "I don't want to see this" and you'll be given the option to hide all ads from that particular organisation. You can reject specific ads in your news feed too. The equivalent mobile setting is limit ad tracking. The opt-out is per-browser and per-device, so if you use multiple browsers you'll need to opt out in each one (and opt out again any time you clear your cookies). You can opt out of targeted ads but if you clear cookies you'll need to opt out again ![]()
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