Tool lets people get back to websites, Meta says – but also lets it use that history for advertising

Facebook is rolling out a new tool that lets it track the links users click on.

The new system, called “link history”, is a catalogue of websites that people have visited within Facebook. That is stored in one location and visitors can navigate back to it to see where they have clicked.

Facebook is marketing the new feature as a way of storing links that might otherwise be lost or forgot