Facebook CFO David Wehner said the clear-history feature is coming out this year.
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After being promised in early 2018, Facebook’s “clear history” privacy tool may finally be on its way.
Facebook CFO David Wehner on Tuesday said the company will launch its clear-history feature later this year, according to CNBC. A spokesperson from the social network has confirmed the news.
“Broadly, [the feature is] going to give us some headwinds in terms of being able to target as effectively as before,” Wehner reportedly said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2019 in San Francisco.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in May 2018 announced the privacy tool that would allow you to clear your browsing history on the social network. The company then in December said it expected to start testing the feature this spring.
The clear-history feature will let you view information about apps and websites you’ve used and delete data directly from your Facebook account. Wehner reportedly said the feature will make it harder for Facebook to use data collected by third parties to target ads to certain groups of users.