A recent Facebook code change broke FBP’s Newsfeed Filtering system

Posted on October 12, 2025 by admin
F.B. Purity's newsfeed filtering capability is currently broken, but never fear, a new release v38.2.0 is in the process of being published that will fix things.

F.B. Purity’s newsfeed filtering capability is currently broken, but never fear, a new release v38.2.0 is in the process of being published that will fix things.

A recent Facebook code change broke FBP’s Newsfeed Filtering system for many people. Facebook are rolling out the change quite rapidly now, so if it hasn’t affected you yet, it probably will reach you pretty soon. By filtering i mean hiding / blocking / filtering out posts from the Newsfeed. Basically Facebook have started using non standard HTML tags in their site code, which threw FBP’s code out of whack. The good news is that I have come up with a fix. FBP V38.2.0 is currently available for installing/updating via install.fbpurity.com, most installations of fbp should autoupdate themselves to the latest version. But if it hasn’t autoupdated by now, you can try re-installing it.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused, but thats the nature of browser extensions that are tied to a site’s inner workings. If the site changes, it can break some of the extension’s functionality. In this case its mainly the filtering capabilities that are affected, many of FBP’s other functions should still be working ok such as the “Comment Sort : All Comments ” and “Comment Sort : Newest” options for example.

If you appreciate all the work that goes into updating / maintaining / fixing / supporting FBP and would like to show you it, you can do so by donating via https://donate.fbpurity.com

Thanks very much to all the people who have supported FBP over the years, its very much appreciated!

Best Regards,

Steve

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F.B. Purity v38.1.1 lets you change the default comment sorting mode to Newest or All Comments

Posted on September 12, 2025 by admin
Set your own default comment sorting mode on Facebook with F.B. Purity! v38.1 Set it to Newest or All comments & you will have no more missing comments!

Fed up with missing lots of comments due to facebook’s crappy “most relevant” sort mode? The solution is now here, you can now set the default comment sorting mode for Facebook with the latest release of F.B. Purity the safe, free and top rated browser extension for cleaning up and customizing Facebook. Get it via fbpurity.com

F.B. Purity v38.1.1 is out now! Fed up with Facebook’s “Most Relevant” sorting for comments? Noticing lots of missing comments? Don’t agree with their choice of “Relevant” comments? Never fear, FBP has 2 new options that let you set your own default Comment Sorting Mode, “Comment Sort : All comments” and “Comment Sort : Newest“. If you select either of these options, whenever you open a post, FBP should automatically switch the comments on that post to your choice of sort mode.

As with many of FBP’s options, these 2 options will only work if the Facebook language setting is set to English.

Theres also a new Hide “Chat with AI” Hide Left Column Link option for hiding the “Chat with AI” link in the left column, its located under the Left Column Links heading on the FBP options screen.

Please note there are currently 2 versions of FBP available v38.1 and v38.1.1 the 38.1.1 release is a really minor update that fixes the location of the new options on the FBP options screen, as they were slightly out of place in v38.1 though it doesn’t affect the functionality of the options.

If you already have FBP installed, it should auto update at some point to the new version.

PSA: Facebook has currently disabled searching for posts in the Facebook search page, however there is a simple workaround (this is for the desktop website version of Facebook) do a search via the search box at the top left of the page, then select “Videos”, choose your sort mode, and your date selection, then do the search. Now in the browser’s URL/Address bar right at the top, change the word “videos” to “posts”, and Facebook will now show you the search results just for posts.

For those who don’t already know F.B. Purity is a safe, free & top rated desktop web browser extension that lets you clean up and customize Facebook. It has been reviewed and highly rated in The Washington Post and CNET and has over 478,000 users worldwide.
Get F.B. Purity via fbpurity.com

Please support the F.B. Purity project if you can, you can do so by donating via donate.fbpurity.com

Spreading the word about F.B. Purity also helps, please tell your friends, family and followers about FBP

Many thanks go out to all the FBP supporters out there!

If you have any problems or questions, please read the FAQ page at FAQ.FBPURITY.COM where there is a comprehensive list of questions and answers and also a Troubleshooting Guide with many steps for fixing all kinds of issues you may encounter.

Cheers,

Steve

Please note F.B. Purity is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta or Facebook. Facebook and Meta are trademarks of Meta

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F.B. Purity Update v38.0.2 is out now! Featuring new features and bug fixes.

Posted on August 21, 2025 by admin
F.B. Purity is Fixed - Hiding Sponsored Posts on Facebook works again!

Clean up and Customize Facebook with F.B. Purity. F.B. Purity hides Sponsored and Suggested Posts (Join/Follow posts) and gives you many options for filtering out other junk you don’t want to see on Facebook

F.B. Purity v 38.0.2 is out now!

Just to let you know I’ve begun the publishing process for FBP V38.0,2

Unfortunately there was a bug in the v38.0 release that I missed when testing. Basically this release separates out the Hide Suggested Posts option from the Hide Sponsored Box/Posts option, whereas in previous versions the functionality of both hiding suggested posts and sponsored posts was all under a single option “Hide Sponsored Box/ Posts”

I thought i had made the “Hide Suggested Posts” option turned on by default, but early reports from users with the update let me know there was a bug in the logic, and if you updated to v38 from an older version of FBP, the hide suggested posts option would be turned off. If you do have FBP v38 and are suffering from seeing lots of suggested posts “Join” / “Follow” posts etc, then open the FBP options screen and tick the Hide “Suggested Posts” option, then click “Save and Close“. FBP v38.0.2 which should fix that issue.

Another thing to be aware of with this release is I have added a new “Host” permission, which basically means as well as being able to run on facebook.com it can now also run on  fbpurity.com. The reason I needed to add this was so I could query fbpurity.com for the latest FBP news updates. In most browsers if an updated extension has certain new permission types (Such as the host permission) the browser disables the extension until the user acknowledges and agrees to the new permission/s being enabled, so you may find fbp has suddenly become disabled when your version of FBP updates to v38.0.2 You can fix it via the browser’s extensions management page (re-enable the extension and approve the permission change)

Now thats the breaking stuff out of the way, i can explain the fixed stuff and new stuff.

  • New “Allow List” function, works similarly to the Text Filter, but instead of filtering out posts, it shows posts featuring the text you
    specify (i.e. if the word/s you specify in the Allow List show up in a post, FBP will stop processing its usual filters and show the post)
  • Fixed and renamed the Friends Whitelist feature, its now called the “Friend Allow List“. The “Friend Allow List” works similarly to the “Allow List” but it has a built in widget that lets you easily add people from your Friends list to the “Allow List”. Basically if your Friends name from your Friends Allow List shows up in a post, the post will be “allowed” to be shown meaning all other filters will be overridden.
  • New Hide Suggested Posts option ( I separated this functionality out from the hide sponsored posts option ) This will mean you can turn this option off to see all those “join” / “follow” posts if you like them, but still want to have the “Sponsored posts” hidden.
  • Fixed the “Hide Auto Tag Suggestions” option. (It stops facebook adding tags to things while you are typing comments unless you actually first type an @ symbol)
  • Fixed the “Clear Ad Prefs” / Interests button on the https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/?section=interests page and the Ad Topics page https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ad_preferences/ad_topics

So if you don’t have FBP v38 just yet, dont worry, the publishing process can take a few days, as some of the browser companies are slower at approving extension updates than others. Your version of FBP should autoupdate at some point when it becomes available for your browser.

Sorry for all the text, i know people hate reading long technical texts on facebook, but I needed to explain some of the issues people were facing with this release.

For those who don;’t already know F.B. Purity is a Safe, Free & Top Rated desktop web browser extension that lets you clean up and customize Facebook. It has been reviewed and highly rated in The Washington Post and CNET and has over 478,000 users worldwide.
Get F.B. Purity via fbpurity.com

Please support the F.B. Purity project if you can, you can do so by donating via donate.fbpurity.com

Spreading the word about F.B. Purity also helps, please tell your friends and family about FBP

Many thanks go out to all the FBP supporters out there!

If you have any problems or questions, please read the FAQ page at FAQ.FBPURITY.COM where there is a comprehensive list of questions and answers and also a Troubleshooting Guide with many steps for fixing all kinds of issues you may encounter.

Cheers,

Steve

Please note F.B. Purity is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta or Facebook. Facebook and Meta are trademarks of Meta

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F.B. Purity v37.5 fixes hiding Sponsored Posts on Facebook

Posted on June 24, 2025 by admin
F.B. Purity is Fixed - Hiding Sponsored Posts on Facebook works again!

Clean up and Customize Facebook with F.B. Purity. F.B. Purity hides Sponsored and Suggested Posts (Join/Follow posts) and gives you many options for filtering out other junk you don’t want to see on Facebook

F.B. Purity v 37.5 is out now! It fixes hiding Sponsored Posts on Facebook (Please note that this update is not yet available as a Firefox extension, as it will take a few days for Firefox to approve it)

The sponsored posts code change may not have reached you yet, due to the way Facebook rolls out code changes gradually, so if the previous version of fbp is still filtering the sponsored posts, then you are golden, if not this new release should fix the issue. Please let me know if it does fix it for you.

For those who don;’t already know F.B. Purity is a safe, free & top rated desktop web browser extension that lets you clean up and customize Facebook. It has been reviewed and highly rated in The Washington Post and CNET and has over 479,000 users worldwide.

Get F.B. Purity via fbpurity.com

Please support the F.B. Purity project if you can, you can do so by donating via donate.fbpurity.com

Spreading the word about F.B. Purity also helps, please tell your friends and family about FBP :)

Many thanks go out to all the FBP supporters out there!

If you have any problems or questions, please read the FAQ page at FAQ.FBPURITY.COM where there is a comprehensive list of questions and answers and also a Troubleshooting Guide with many steps for fixing all kinds of issues you may encounter.

Cheers,

Steve

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Bad News: Facebook have made a new change, they are now shoving “Suggested posts” in the Newsfeed without any identifying text

Posted on June 3, 2025 by admin

Bad News: Facebook have made a new change, they are now shoving “Suggested posts” in the default Newsfeed page without any identifying text such as the “Join” or “Follow” links at the top of the post, that text was what FBP used to filter those posts out, so now its going to be a lot harder to filter them out. This could possibly be a Facebook bug, or it could be a Facebook test, or it could just be the way Facebook is now. I will need to investigate it further to see what I can do to get FBP to filter these posts out.

In the meantime, if you wish to avoid seeing these unwanted posts in your Newsfeed, you could try switching to viewing the “Feeds” pages, which do not have these spammy posts. There are 5 Feeds pages: You can access the Feeds pages via the “Feeds” link in the left column of the Newsfeed

Feeds (All) (what used to be known as the “Most Recent” page) https://www.facebook.com/?filter=all&sk=h_chr This page is a combination of all entities you are connected to on Facebook.

Friends Feed: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr Only displays posts from your Friends.

Favorites Feed: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=favorites&sk=h_chr Only displays posts from Pages / Friends etc that you have marked as “Favorites”.

Pages Feed: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=pages&sk=h_chr
Only displays posts from Pages you have liked or followed.

Groups Feed: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=groups&sk=h_chr
Only displays posts from groups you have joined.

F.B. Purity has options to change your default Newsfeed to any of the following Feeds pages, they are:

“News Sort: Most Recent” which keeps your Newsfeed permanently switched to the Feeds / All page.

“News Sort : Friends”, which keeps your Newsfeed permanently switched to the “Friends Feed”

“News Sort : Favorites” which keeps your Newsfeed permanently switched to the “Favorites Feed”

What do you think of Facebook’s new change? Do you think Facebook have gone too far this time, or is the worst yet to come?

For those who don’t know already, F.B Purity is a safe, free and top rated browser add-on that lets you clean up and customize Facebook. It lets you block the Sponsored Posts, and filter out post types that you don’t want to see, and also gives you the ability to filter out posts based on keywords or phrases you specify (amongst many other useful features)

You can get F.B. Purity via FBPURITY.COM

To learn how F.B. Purity works, please check the User Guide page at user-guide.fbpurity.com

If you have any questions, please check the FBP FAQ page at faq.fbpurity.com

If you have any problems, please follow all the steps in the Troubleshooting Guide on the FAQ Page at faq.fbpurity.com/#troubleshooting

You can support FBP by donating via donate.fbpurity.com
Thanks very much to everyone who supoorts Fluff Busting Purity!

Please also tell your friends about F.B. Purity.

Please note F.B. Purity is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta or Facebook. Facebook and Meta are trademarks of Meta

 

**UPDATE 4th June ** It seems like Facebook have reverted their silly change, perhaps it was just  a bug after all. Suggested Page posts now have the “Follow” link at the top again, so FBP can resume filtering those unwanted posts out again.

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Hang on Facebook Changed stuff again! Fix in progress stay tuned!

Posted on April 11, 2025 by admin
Hang on Facebook Changed stuff again! Fix in progress stay tuned!

Hang on Facebook Changed stuff again! Fix in progress stay tuned!

Hey FBP fans! Just a quick heads-up: As you are probably already aware, Facebook has made a big code change that’s temporarily broken F.B. Purity

I know it’s frustrating — your feed may be looking messy right now, and I completely understand how annoying that can be. But rest assured: I’m aware of the problem and already investigating it.

Fixing this kind of thing takes time, so if you could bear with me and be patient, that would be incredibly appreciated.

Thanks so much for your support — we’ll keep you posted as soon as we have an update!

Might be the perfect time for a little Facebook break ☀️

BTW A reminder though FBP is free to use for all, it does involve a lot of time spent fixing things, giving support, and developing new features etc. Donations are always welcome to support the FBP cause, donate.fbpurity.com

Thanks,

Steve

**UPDATE** I’ve made some  good progress on coming up with a fix, its not a total fix, but it should fix filtering the majority of posts you don’t want to see, i will continue working on a total fix, but thought the progress made so far was worth releasing, as it will definitely clean up people’s newsfeeds a lot more than it is currently due to facebook’s code change.  I’m in the process of releasing V37.4.0 with the partial fix. Currently only available for Chrome and GM Script, other versions will be come available when those browser companies (Microsoft and Opera) approve the updates. When this version becomes available for your browser, it should autoupdate at some point.

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F.B. Purity v37.3.3 is out now. Fixes Hiding Reels+Sponsored Posts + New Newsfeed Sort options.

Posted on March 27, 2025 by admin

Whats New /  Changed in FBP V37.3.3

  • Fixed the Hide Sponsored Posts option, it should now catch more Sponsored Posts in the Newsfeed than before.
  • Fixed : Hide Reels option (It now also hides the big blank black/grey posts that turn into reels (which are actually a Facebook bug) N.B The hide Reels option is under the “Video posts” heading on the FBP options screen.

    Simple method for blocking / hidding Reels on Facebook using a desktop web browser and the F.B. Purity browser add-on

    How to Block Reels using F.B. Purity

  • when you click on them. The reason the posts are blank is a Facebook bug)
  • Fixed : Replay Friend Alert Box, it now shows in the FBP info bar when an alert is available.
  • Fixed : Hide Group Chats option.
  • Added : News Sort: Friends Feed option that permanently redirects the Newsfeed to the Friends Feed page
  • Added : News Sort: Favorites option. It keeps your newsfeed/home page permanently redirected to the Favorites Feed page.
  • Fixed a bug in the show deactivated friends function. You can view your list of Deactivated Friends, by going to your profile / friends page, then click the “Show Deactivated Friends” link near the top of the page.
  • Fixed and Updated Hide All Videos option to also catch Reels posts. (This option may be useful for those who are in the Facebook test group that are having the endlessly looping video previews on all videos in the Newsfeed)  N.B The “Hide All Videos” option is under the “Video posts” heading on the FBP options screen.
  • Removed a bunch of options that were obsolete to clean up the options screen a bit.

Please let me know if this new version fixes any issues you were having with seeing Sponsored Posts and Reels in your Newsfeed, also let me know how the new Newsfeed “Sorting” options work for you?

Known Issues: The News Sort Most Recent, News Sort: Friends Feed and News Sort: Favorites options when enabled, permanently redirect your Newsfeed/Home Page to the specific Feeds Page you have selected. Facebook’s Feeds Pages do not have the same design as the standard Newsfeed page, and are missing various things such as the Chat box in the right hand column, and the “Create a Post” box. You can still access the create a post box, by clicking the “Create Post” link at the top left that FBP adds, or simply click the 3×3 Grid button in the top navigation bar, which brings you various options including the “Create Post” button. To temporarily go back to the standard/default newsfeed, you can simply click hte “Back to Top Posts” link at the top left of the feed page, there you will see the standard newsfeed with all the bells and whistles that page has., or if you decide you just dont like the Feeds pages, simply turn off whichever  “News Sort” FBP option you have turned on.

For those who don;’t already know F.B. Purity is a safe, free & top rated desktop web browser extension that lets you clean up and customize Facebook. It has been reviewed and highly rated in The Washington Post and CNET and has over 489,000 users worldwide.

Get F.B. Purity via fbpurity.com

Please support the F.B. Purity project if you can, you can do so by donating via donate.fbpurity.com

Spreading the word about F.B. Purity also helps, please tell your friends and family about FBP :)

Many thanks go out to all the FBP supporters out there!

If you have any problems or questions, please read the FAQ page at FAQ.FBPURITY.COM where there is a comprehensive list of questions and answers and also a Troubleshooting Guide with many steps for fixing all kinds of issues you may encounter.

Cheers,

Steve

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F.B Purity v37.1.4 is out now! It fixes the Hide Sponsored Posts and Hide Reels options

Posted on January 8, 2025 by admin
Most of the ads on Facebook are either fraudulent scams or covert foreign influence operations, you are better off blocking all the ads on Facebook, which you can do with the F.B. Purity browser add-on, As well as ads FBP also lets you hide / block / remove all Reels posts

How to Hide / Block Facebook Reels with F.B. Purity

F.B Purity v37.1.5 is out now! it hopefully fixes the hide Sponsored Posts option, and also the hide Reels option.  FBP available for Firefox, Chrome (and Chrome clones such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera etc) and also available for Safari (via the GM Script version of FBP)

*Known Issues *

* It seems the “FBP Video Player” option has stopped working due to a Facebook code change. It seems unlikely that I will be able to get it working again in the near future, so its best to turn that option off for now if you have enabled it.

* The option to hide the Ray-Ban Meta link in the Left Column has stopped working due to a Facebook code change. I will fix it in the next FBP Release, in the meantime, you can copy and paste the following CSS code into FBP’s CSS box, to hide it. To access FBP’s CSS box, open the FBP options screen, then click the CSS link at the top right, once you have pasted the code in, click the Save and Close button.

/* hide the ray-ban meta link in the left column*/
a[href*="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meta.com%2Fai-glasses"], a[href*="/ai-glasses/"]{ display:none !important}

If you are using the extension version of FBP, it should have auto-updated itself by now. If you are using the GM Script version of FBP, it may have updated itself, but if it hasn’t, you can force it to update by going to install.fbpurity.com clicking the install f.b purity GM Script link/button, and then clicking the Update button that should be shown at the top of the script page.

If you do have this latest version of FBP and are still seeing Sponsored Posts, please view the previous post which explains how to take care of that using the “Zap the Ads” option.
Also if you have this new version and have the option to hide Reels turned on, but are still seeing them, try putting the word Reels into FBP’s Text Filter box.

Please let me know if this new version fixes any issues you were having with seeing Sponsored Posts and Reels in your Newsfeed.

For those who don;’t already know F.B. Purity is a safe, free and top rated desktop web browser add-on that lets you clean up and customize Facebook. It has been reviewed and highly rated in The Washington Post and CNET and has over 488,000 users worldwide.

Get F.B. Purity via fbpurity.com

Please support the F.B. Purity project if you can, you can do so by donating via donate.fbpurity.com

Spreading the word about F.B. Purity also helps, please tell your friends and family about FBP :)

Many thanks go out to all the FBP supporters out there!

If you have any problems or questions, please read the FAQ page at FAQ.FBPURITY.COM where there is a comprehensive list of questions and answers and also a Troubleshooting Guide with many steps for fixing all kinds of issues you may encounter.

Cheers,

Steve

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FBP v37.1.3 is out now! Fixes Hiding Sponsored Posts on Facebook!

Posted on March 10, 2024 by admin
Block / Hide Sponsored and Suggested Posts on Facebook with FB Purity

Block / Hide Sponsored Posts and Suggested Posts on Facebook with FB Purity

FBP v37.1.3 is out now! (This version is not yet available for Edge as Microsoft are slow to approve extension updates)

This version should fix hiding Sponsored Posts for most people (Fingers crossed). Please note: If you are using the Brave browser, you will need to turn off Brave Shields for Facebook, to get this functionality to work.

If you have v37.1.3 installed and are still seeing Sponsored Posts, click on the 3 dot menu “…” at the top right of any Sponsored Post, then click the “Zap the Ads” menu option, then after reloading the page, the Sponsored Posts should be gone.

This version also fixes the hide “Stories”  Newsfeed filter option.

Let me know if this version fixes hiding Sponsored Posts for you or not (Please also mention which browser and browser version number you are using, thanks!)

Your browser has probably by now already updated you to the latest version of FBP, if not it should do shortly.

Clean up and Customize Facebook with the safe, free and top rated F.B. Purity browser add-on.

Get F.B. Purity via fbpurity.com

Please support the F.B. Purity project if you can and haven’t already, you can do so by donating via donate.fbpurity.com

Spreading the word about F.B. Purity also helps, please tell your friends and family about FBP :)

Many thanks go out to all the FBP supporters out there!

If you have any problems or questions, please read the FAQ page on FBPURITY.COM where there is a comprehensive list of questions and answers and also a Troubleshooting Guide with many steps for fixing all kinds of issues you may encounter.

Cheers,

Steve

 

** UPDATE REGARDING HIDING REELS POSTS **

Facebook have tweaked their code for “Reels” posts, which has broken FBP’s Hide Reels option, however theres a simple workaround for this, just put the word Reels into FBP’s Text Filter box, then click “Save and Close” and that should fix filtering out Reels posts from the Newsfeed

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Latest FBP News: Sponsored Posts & Suggested Posts not being filtered – What to do?

Posted on November 19, 2023 by admin

Facebook recently changed the coding on their website, which broke a couple of features for some people, to learn more, please check the relevant link below, thanks.

If you are currently seeing “Suggested Posts” (Please note facebook are being sneaky and for some people they have removed the text “Suggested for you” and just have “Join” or “Follow” in the suggested posts heading) in your Facebook Newsfeed, when you have FBP installed, please check the relevant post on the FBP Fan Page for more info on what to do.

If you are currently seeing “Sponsored Posts” in your Facebook Newsfeed, when you have FBP installed, please check the relevant post on the FBP Fan Page for more info on what to do.

You can be sure I will release an FBP update with fixes for these issues when I can, but in the meantime, please use the workarounds explained at the links above,

Thanks,


Steve

If you have any other problems or issues, please follow all the steps in the FB Purity Troubleshooting Guide.

If you have any questions please check the FB Purity Frequently Asked Questions Page.

If you would like to donate to support FB Purity, you can do so via the FB Purity Donation Page

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