*IMPORTANT NEWS!* Facebook are throwing their weight around again, and have banned the developer of the highly rated and popular F.B. Purity web browser extension from accessing the Facebook site.
Full story here: http://tiny-url.org/fbpbanned
FB Purity v8.0.1 has been released. New features include options for hiding the links in the left column next to the newsfeed, including Pages Feed, Games Feed, and App Center etc.
Get the latest version of FB Purity and make Facebook less annoying
A lot of people are wondering how to block the sponsored stories aka ads from showing up in your facebook newsfeed.
The questions people are asking are:
The solution is actually really simple, just install the Very Highly Rated and Safe
and it will clean up all those junk ads from your facebook newsfeed, and you can enjoy a cleaned up and spam free newsfeed featuring just the stories and posts that you actually care about and want to read.
FB Purity has been reviewed and highly rated in The Washington Post, Lifehacker and CNET, so you can be sure its 100% safe, despite what lies Facebook might tell you. Facebook dont like this browser extension, because it gives the Facebook users back control over what they see in their newsfeeds, and Facebook want to control what you see and force you to view spam and junk that you are not interested in.
Take the power back and get FB Purity today! :)
What If I Told You FB Purity Cleans the Adverts, Junk and Spam off Facebook?
Facebook is now displaying graphical smiley icons aka emoticons when you type in text based smileys in Facebook comments, it used to only do this in Facebook chat.
If you dont want to see the graphical smileys in your comments see this post for information on how to revert back to just showing the text style smileys in Facebook.
FB Purity is a browser extension that lets you customize how you view and interact with Facebook, making it much easier to use and less annoying.
Great overview and tutorial video on how to use FB Purity by Kim Castleberry of the Ask Kim website :
“Easily Clean Up Your Facebook Newsfeed!” - http://just-ask-kim.com/fbpurity/
FB Purity was also featured on the MacWorld website, with an article titled
“How to block annoying political posts on Facebook” (Though of course you can use it to block posts on any topic that you find boring or annoying) - http://www.macworld.com/article/1168588/how_to_block_annoying_political_posts_on_facebook.html
5 Design tricks that Facebook use to affect your privacy decisions.
The TechCrunch article clearly shows via screenshots of previous application permissions dialogs and the new ones, how they are eroding your privacy rights, by reducing the visibility of the permissions that Facebook applications request.
Please note, that the latest version of the FB Purity browser extension, has a feature that highlights any important permission requests, such as if the app asks for your email address or the permission to post as you. If those permissions are requested, FB Purity draws a thick red box around the permission request, to draw your attention to it. It also changes the colour of the permissions request text from light grey, to black, to make it stand out more against the background, and make it generally clearer to the user what permissions are being requested.
FB Purity Update available : v7.6.0
FB Purity is web browser extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera, that lets you clean up and customise Facebook, removing the ads and spam, and also improving your privacy.
Changes in this version of FB Purity:
Added remove event links (“x”) on facebook events page, to make it easier to remove events.
Disabled Facebook’s external link interception, which should speed up loading external links, and avoid facebooks stupid blocks, warnings and censorship that they throw up to get in the way of visiting perfectly safe sites.
Added warning on Facebook application pages, when they request to access your email address and permission to post to your stream.
Get the latest version of FB Purity here: http://www.fbpurity.com
Facebook Police Enforce Facebook Email - Hilarious Video
Also worth checking out: Why you shouldnt switch your email to facebook:
http://lifehacker.com/5690722/why-you-shouldnt-switch-your-email-to-facebook
You can easily hide / remove Trending Articles and Trending Videos on Facebook, using the FB Purity browser extension.
Just install FB Purity, then open the FB Purity options screen, by clicking the FB Purity link at the top of your newsfeed, then tick the “Hide Read an Article / Trending Articles” option, then click Save. This will hide the Read an Article stories, Trending articles and also Trending Videos stories and as a bonus it also hides other Facebook Actions / Frictionless Sharing apps, i.e the person x watched a video on website y , person x pinned something to pinterest etc etc.
Get FB Purity here: www.fbpurity.com
