diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/5502-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml b/changelogs/fragments/5502-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..776d852700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5502-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+removed_features:
+  - >
+    xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0,
+    however two factoids, ``previous_value`` and ``type`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour
+    has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever
+    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/xfconf.py b/plugins/modules/xfconf.py
index c231a47484..6776ef888e 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/xfconf.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/xfconf.py
@@ -195,15 +195,12 @@ class XFConfProperty(StateModuleHelper):
 
     default_state = 'present'
 
-    def update_xfconf_output(self, **kwargs):
-        self.update_vars(meta={"output": True, "fact": True}, **kwargs)
-
     def __init_module__(self):
         self.runner = xfconf_runner(self.module)
         self.does_not = 'Property "{0}" does not exist on channel "{1}".'.format(self.vars.property,
                                                                                  self.vars.channel)
-        self.vars.set('previous_value', self._get(), fact=True)
-        self.vars.set('type', self.vars.value_type, fact=True)
+        self.vars.set('previous_value', self._get())
+        self.vars.set('type', self.vars.value_type)
         self.vars.meta('value').set(initial_value=self.vars.previous_value)
 
         if self.vars.disable_facts is False: