If you thought turning off your location settings on social media or mobile phone will help you run away from an online advertisement or being tracked, you are wrong.
According to privacy guidelines on Facebook and Twitter websites, you will still be served with ads despite turning on all privacy user controls in place.
There are several ways to guard and restrict what Facebook can access so that they serve you ads specifically through location-based ad targeting.
The measures include not checking-in to places you visit, not allowing the facebook app to access your phone’s location, not listing your current city in your profile and turning off location history in the facebook app.
However, according to Facebook privacy basics, connection information like your Internet Protocol address or Wi-Fi connection and specific location information like your device’s GPS signal helps tell where you are.
“We may still understand your location using things like check-ins, events, and information about your internet connection,” Facebook says.
This means that even unfollowing accounts that keep annoying you with ads every minute, fast forwarding ads on videos or Installing an ad-blocker on your device will not stop online ads from reaching you.
This loophole, according to Internet and the law advocate Mugambi Laibuta, easily makes way for foreign firms to collect local data for their own commercial use.
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