{"id":88712,"date":"2016-06-12T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=88712"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:57:16","slug":"if-you-do-this-facebook-will-stop-showing-you-everything-you-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/if-you-do-this-facebook-will-stop-showing-you-everything-you-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"If you do this, Facebook will stop showing you everything you hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facebook<\/strong> has the ability to <strong>constantly show you product adverts and pages<\/strong> that supposedly are of interest to you, however it can often get it so wrong \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good news!<\/strong> You can now decide what you do and don\u2019t like with the all-new \u201c<strong>Advert Preference<\/strong>\u201d option.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/preferences\/edit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Advert Preferences<\/strong><\/a> option is a feature within your <strong>Facebook settings<\/strong>, which shows your likes divided in categories. This is how it looks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/preferences.jpg\" alt=\"preferences\" width=\"466\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By hovering over the <strong>subcategory<\/strong>, a cross will appear on the right-hand side. Once clicked, that category will be deleted from your preference list and you will no longer receive ads for that category. This is a great option if you\u2019re getting overwhelmed with inappropriate ads, such as fast-food delivery when you\u2019re actually trying to diet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/remove.jpg\" alt=\"remove\" width=\"558\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, how about telling Facebook what you do like? Easy! You can add categories simply by searching in the search bar above:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/add.jpg\" alt=\"add\" width=\"520\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you like this trick? Check out and alter your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/preferences\/edit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advert Preferences<\/a><\/strong> now and see what surprise are in store!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has the ability to constantly show you product adverts and pages that supposedly are of interest to you, however it can often get it so wrong \u2013 until now. Good news! You can now decide what you do and don\u2019t like with the all-new \u201cAdvert Preference\u201d option. The Advert Preferences option is a feature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/if-you-do-this-facebook-will-stop-showing-you-everything-you-hate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you do this, Facebook will stop showing you everything you hate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":88739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2556],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-88712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioneverything"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328943,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88712\/revisions\/328943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88712"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=88712"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=88712"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=88712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}