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Facebook for Windows users: Tight privacy set

How to protect your account from getting hacked

  • Set a strong password
  • Enable two-factor authentication
  • Verify the list of trusted devices
  • Enable suspicious activity alerts
  • Choose trusted contacts to help recover your account

How to keep corporations out of your business

  • Block face recognition
  • Disable the use of your personal data in advertising
  • Disable integration with questionable sites
  • Restrict the use of information about your off-Facebook activity in advertising.
  • Deny Facebook partners access to your data

How to defeat spammers and trolls

  • Limit the ability to comment on your posts
  • Exclude offensive comments from your timeline
  • Block unwanted users
  • Limit the ability to tag you in posts
  • Restrict others from posting on your timeline
  • Limit the ability to send you friend requests

How to hide posts from unwanted people

  • Configure visibility of posts
  • Limit access to stories
  • Stop users from sharing your posts in stories

How not to expose your personal data

  • Configure visibility of your profile data
  • Restrict the visibility of your subscriptions
  • Hide your status
  • Limit visibility of your ad-specific activity on the social network
  • Limit the ability to find you by your phone number and e-mail address
  • Stop search engines from indexing your profile

How to get rid of unwanted notifications

  • Turn off unnecessary notifications
  • Turn off notifications from games and apps
  • Disable browser notifications

How to clean up your traces

  • Delete bank card details
  • Disable and remove the location history
  • Check what data Facebook has on you

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