Meta now allows you to prevent Instagram from monitoring you around the internet

Meta now allows you to prevent Instagram from gathering your data across all apps and websites you visit. According to the company, it is expanding the ability to prevent this type of tracking to Instagram, allowing users to evaluate which businesses are sharing information with Meta, disconnect specific activity, or wipe the acquired data.

This tool, known as Activity Off-Meta Technologies, is now available in the platform's Accounts Center. Previously, it was exclusively available on Facebook. Third-party websites that use Meta's business tools, such as the Meta Pixel, which follows people on the web and allows Meta to display targeted adverts on its platforms, provide Meta with information.

Meta also revealed a few new Accounts Center capabilities, including the ability to move photographs and videos from Instagram to other platforms. It's unclear which exact services you can transfer your information to, but Meta provides an example of using a third-party service to build and print an Instagram photo book.

You may also now export data from both your Facebook and Instagram accounts at the same time. Previously, Meta simply allowed you to download information independently, which you can still do.

Meta initially announced the redesigned Accounts Center in January, providing a centralized place for managing settings across your Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger accounts. In response to charges that it encouraged housing discrimination, the company has also changed its advertising strategy, providing more information about why you're seeing particular ads and creating a new ad distribution system. Meta is also dealing with new laws in the European Union, and it may even make highly targeted advertisements opt-in in the region.