How to delete Recent ad activity on Facebook

Facebook Recent Ad Activity – How to See Your Facebook Ad History | How to Clear Your FB Search History

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So what is Facebook Recent Ad Activity? You might think you’re resistant to Facebook’s ads, but you almost certainly do get enticed every once in a while. But because ads aren’t always permanently available anywhere, it is often impossible to seek out a Facebook ad that led somewhere you would like to revisit.

Now Facebook features a solution called Recent Ad Activity when you click a billboard and need to ascertain it again. Recent Ad Activity appears to point out the past three months approximately of ads you clicked, liked, commented on, or shared. There’s also a tab for ads you purposefully saved.

Ads are all over the place, but Facebook occasionally succeeds to show you the exact product at the right time. Pondering how to find an ad you clicked on weeks ago. Well, read on to get the hints on how to find recently viewed ads on Facebook.

Facebook Recent Ad Activity

Recent Ad Activity could let people click through an old ad and make a sale or take alternative action the business cares about.

This in turn could help Facebook take credit for driving purchases. If you saw a billboard six weeks ago but can’t quite commit it to memory, you would possibly Google any details you recall, leading the program to require credit for delivering the conversion.

With Recent Ad Activity, those users might just come to Facebook, click through the ad again, and provides Facebook data it can use to convince advertisers to spend more.

The Facebook app on iPhone and Android has a separate segment for your ad doings. There, you can track all the sponsored posts that you have interacted with on your news feed. The steps for getting there are slightly different for both platforms.

How to See Your Facebook Ad History

How to view activity history for your ad account in Ads Manager

• Go to Ads Manager.
• Click to tick the box next to each campaign, ad set or ad you want to see the history for.
• Select Edit.
• Select History.
• To filter for activity type: Use the Activity type drop-down to filter the information you see.
• To filter who made the change: Use the Changed by drop-down to filter for that information.

Unfortunately, there is currently no way to export the activity history section in Ads Manager.

Take note that; Account, budget, and audience history aren’t available in this view. You can get more details here.

How to Clear Your FB Search History

It’s easy to clear your Facebook search history, should it become cluttered or if you simply want to protect your privacy. Facebook allows you to clear your search history all at once, as well as delete individual search items.

Below are the steps to clearing your Facebook history on your mobile device;

• Open the Facebook app on your iPhone or Android device.
• Tap the search icon at the top right of the screen.
• Next to where it says recent searches, tap “Edit.”
• At the top of your Activity Log, tap “Clear Searches” to instantly clear your history. You can also tap the X icon next to each search item to clear that specific search, and leave the rest.

How to clear Facebook Search History on a Computer 

below are the tips to clearing your search history on your computer;

• Go to Facebook using any internet browser on your Mac or PC and open your profile page. On your profile page, in the bottom right corner of your cover photo, click “Activity Log.”
• Click “More” under “Comments” on the left sidebar.
• From the extended menu, click “Search History.”
• At the top right of the menu, click “Clear Searches.” You can also click the cancel icon next to each search item to delete that item specifically.
• Click “Clear Searches” again to confirm that you’d like to clear them all.

With the above steps, you can easily clear your search history. You can also get more details by simply clicking here.

Rarely do we talk about Facebook and privacy in the same sentence and not refer to a data breach or some sort of election interference. But the social media giant has finally put out a tool to provide some transparency into how you're being served ads. And now you have the power to opt out of that digital surveillance.

Off-Facebook Activity, as the privacy tool is being called, provides a summary of all of the data that Facebook acquires from watching your activity across sites and apps, both on mobile and through your regular browser. Strangely, though, it looks like you can only access the new privacy settings through the mobile app.

Users in some countries like Ireland and South Korea have had access to these new privacy settings since August. For the rest of us, it's all brand new. So how does it work?

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Grab your smartphone now, because you can't do this from a laptop or desktop. To start, tap on the hamburger menu on the top right-hand side of the screen, then scroll down to Settings. Continue down that page until you see Off Facebook Activity under the Your Facebook Information tab and tap again.

Next, you'll be guided to a page that explains how the new settings work. Off-Facebook Activity includes information that businesses and organizations outside the Facebook app have collected on you. For instance, you may have bought a pair of shoes from Nike's website three months ago. The retailer shares your activity with Facebook and it's saved to your account. That's saved as something like "Jane visited the Nike website" and "made a purchase."

You have three choices for what to do next: You can manage your Off-Facebook activity, meaning you can select which companies can and can't share information with Facebook, clear the history altogether, view your information by category, download details about your browsing that Facebook has collected for its ad business, and manage future activity—like stopping the data collection altogether.

I decided to first look at how many sites were sending my data to Facebook. The number shocked me: 908 (!), including everything from iRobot to Audible to Sephora.

While I'd love to tell you exactly what Facebook gleaned from my browsing activity on the site, the data dump isn't instantaneous. You request a copy of the data and then it appears as a "pending" request. You can adjust the length of time and the types of data you'd like to see, which could very well speed up the process. I decided to request everything they had on me for the entire life of my account, which is apparently almost 11 years' worth of data. We'll update this story once I receive my data, so you can get an idea of how long the process can be.

To turn off data sharing from sites to your account altogether, tap More Options from the main page for Your Off-Facebook Activity, and then select Manage Future Activity. If you've been tinkering around, you'll need to tap the back arrow a few times to return to this page. When you turn the slider off for all data sharing, you'll see the page pictured above as a warning of sorts: It can take up to 48 hours for the changes to go into effect; Facebook will still receive data about your activity across sites, but it won't be saved to your account; you may be logged out of a bunch of apps; and while you'll still see ads, they just won't be personalized.

Before joining Pop Mech, Courtney was the technology reporter at her hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied English and economics. Her favorite topics include, but are not limited to: the giant squid, punk rock, and robotics. She lives in the Philly suburbs with her partner, her black cat, and towers upon towers of books.

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