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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Issues with Facebook’s New “Feeds” button, and FBP’s News sort: most recent feature

Posted on April 19, 2023 by admin

Facebook have rolled out a major new change for the Newsfeed, they’ve  added a “Feeds” button in the left column which lets you access separate “Feeds” for Favorites, Friends, Groups and Pages.

If you have the change and are using FBP‘s “News Sort: Most Recent” option, which permanently and automatically keeps your newsfeed page set to “Most Recent“, you will have noticed that when viewing the feed sorted by most recent, Facebook has decided to remove the left hand column and the right hand column (which removes the chat functionality etc) and also the status composer box at the top (though you can still make a post by clicking the 3 by 3 grid button either in the far left column (or in the top navigation bar, then clicking the “Create / Post” button).

Facebook have also removed the “Most Recent” button, that lets you manually select to view the “Most Recent” version of the newsfeed. However, they have actually replaced that button with the “Feeds” button, which when clicked will show your Newsfeed sorted by “Most Recent”. They have also resurrected the “Pages Feed” and “Friends Feed”, and bundled them with the Groups Feed and Favorites Feed, in the “Feeds” Menu. Each of these individual feeds are also sorted by “Most Recent” by default.

If you turn off FBP’s “News Sort: Most Recent” option, your right and left hand column will come back, but your feed will no longer be automatically sorted by “Most Recent”.
I’m looking into the implications of this new code change and how it affects FBP users.
What do you think of this new Facebook change, if you have it?
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For those who don’t already know, F.B. Purity is a safe, free & top rated browser extension that lets you clean up and customize Facebook, letting you hide the parts of the site such as Sponsored Posts, Reels, Rooms, Stories etc & newsfeed posts you don’t want to see. FBP is available for Chrome, FIrefox, Opera, Edge, Safari (and any other Chrome clone browsers such as Brave, Vivaldi, etc)
You can get F.B. Purity via FBPURITY.COM
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Calling all Google Chrome Users – Please join the campaign against Google and Facebook!

Posted on October 24, 2022 by admin

Calling all Google Chrome users!!! Please support FBP in our fight against Google and Facebook.

Dear google, if you remove F.B. Purity from the Chrome webstore, I will remove Google chrome from my comptuer

Dear google, if you remove F.B. Purity from the Chrome webstore, I will remove Google chrome from my comptuer

 
Facebook are trying out their usual corporate bullying tactics, and are pressurising Google to remove the F.B. (Fluff Busting) Purity browser extension from the Google Chrome webstore.
 
Facebook (via a company called AppDetex) have submitted a badly worded trademark dispute to Google, claiming the F.B. (Fluff Busting) Purity is violating their trademarks, and google have given me just a few days to correct the issues that Facebook have with the extension.
 
Their complaint is not clear to read, or understand, and is not detailed enough to know exactly what their problems are with it, they are also very unresponsive to any requests for clarification. I have done my best to comply with their demands, and have submitted the changes i have made to them for approval. I am however not holding much hope of them getting back to me, or giving any further clarification, as I have dealt with them in the past, and their modus operandi seems to be ignore all emails and just let the clock run down, and then tell google i didnt comply with their requiests, so google will automatically remove my extension from the web store.
 
I have implored google to give me more time to sort it out, as last time this happened, they just removed my extension from the webstore, without any way of appealing, or fixing any problems facebook had with the extension.
 

If google do go ahead and remove my extension from the webstore, I would appreciate it if all Google Chrome users stand with me, and do a mass uninstall of google chrome. I know i certainly will be removing Google Chrome from my computer if they go through with this.

As well as changing browser, even non chrome users can help out with this idea: change your usual search engine from google.com to another like duckduckgo.com for example, which does not track all your searches like google does. In firefox you can change the default search engine your browser users by copying and pasting the following text into your browser’s Address/URL bar at the top of the screen
about:preferences#search

then select “duckduckgo” from the dropdown menu options.

In chrome based browsers, you can do it by going to your browsers settings menu, then selecting “Search Engine” then selecting “duckduckgo” from the drop down menu option.

 
There are many other browser options out there these days, and they dont track everything you all day and night, like Google does, for example Brave, Firefox, and Opera,, and are mostly compatible with Google Chrome, and have the same browser extensions available, and also let you import all your chrome bookmarks and passwords, and other settings, so you wont be starting off from scratch. Its also possible to move your FBP settings from one browser to another, which you can do via the Export Settings, and Import Settings links at the bottom of the FBP options screen.
 
Browser migration really is straight forwards these days, and takes very little time. You can try a trial run of your new browser before booting chrome off your computer.
 
There are currently over 204,000 users of the F.B. Purity Chrome extension, imagine if every FBP supporter uninstalled Chrome in favour of an alternative web browser, and switch the search engine you use to another like duckduckgo.com for example that will really send Google a clear message, that they should not “f” about with us!
 
If You are with me, please pledge your agreement to boot Google Chrome off your computer if google kick FBP out of the Webstore!
 
What do you say guys, are you with me?
 
Cheers,
 
Steve FBP
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FBP v35.2.2 is out now! (it fixes some mistakes in a release i published prematurely)

Posted on October 24, 2022 by admin

I released an FBP update v35.2.1 that attempted to fix hiding sponsored posts for those people who that function isnt currently working. I initially released it as a test version via the fbp dev/test page at fb.com/puritytest and initial user reports seemed positive, though there weren’t many testers available, but as it seemed to be working ok, i decided to go ahead with a full release. This turned out to be a big mistake, as it turned out to have some serious bugs in it (causing the newsfeed to go blank, and repeatedly processing the same posts). When i realised my mistake I quickly rolled back the code to the previous version, and published v35.2.2 with the bad code removed. Although the browser companies had quickly approved the previous update v35.2.1 unfortunately they have been a lot slower to approve the rolled back version, probably due to it being the weekend now.

v35.2.2 is now available for all versions of FBP (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge and GM Script) and your extension or script should autoupdate at some point, or you can also manually update it, via your script manager dashboard or your browser’s extensions management page, if you know how.

Please note that v35.2.2 won’t fix hiding the sponsored posts (and newsfeed filtering in general), if you are one of the people who it wasnt working for previously, which according to the poll in the previous post seems to be approximately a third of the total number of fbp users. I will need to work on it some more to get it fixed for those people. Also please note, I am getting a lot of people reporting the “Zap the ads” function is not working, this is correct, its no longer working because it was designed to work with the older version of Facebooks sponsored post code, the “Zap the ads” function is now obsolete, and should not be used.

In other news, Facebook are pressuring Google to remove FBP from the Chrome webstore. They are claiming trademark violations, so I will need to investigate that and see if i can stop them, google have given me 5 days to sort it out, which is not very long, and they do not give any way to appeal once the 5 days is up, and the other party is not satisfied. Also the email i received with the complaint is not very clear as to exactly what their problem is. So will have to investigate further.

Anyway hope that clears up some of the confusion with the latest version of FBP.

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If you have any problems with or questions about FBP, please use the available help resources on FBPURITY.COM including the FBP User Guide page, and FBP FAQ page which includes a comprehensive Troubleshooting Guide that you should follow if you have any problems.

If you wish to support F.B. Purity, please Donate via donate.fbpurity.com to ensure the continuation of this project: Many heartfelt thanks to those people who have generously donated! 🙂

Please tell all your friends about F.B. Purity too, as I’m sure they will appreciate it. One way you can help spread the word about FBP, is to go to fb.com/fluffbustingpurity and click the red “Invite Friends” link that appears near the top of the Page, then invite all your friends

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get F.B. Purity!

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