F.B. Purity v32.1.4 is out now! New Video Ad Blocker function & fixes image content filtering & more!

Posted on February 9, 2021 by admin

F.B. Purity v32.1.4 is out now! New Video ad blocker function & fixes image content filtering & more!

F.B. Purity lets you Block Facebook Video Ads

Changes in F.B. Purity v32.0.2

Updated: the bypass Facebook Video ads solution: which is the”Enable FBP Video Player” option, located under the Further Options heading, The option is located just above the “Save & Close” button on the FBP options screen. Check the FBP Video Player FAQ below for more info on this option.
Fixed the image content filtering options (located under the”Photo Posts” heading of the Newsfeed Filters section of the FBP options screen.
Fixed: the hide “Profile Hover Cards” option (located under the “More Options” heading on the FBP options screen.
Fixed: The FBP button (for opening the FBP options screen) in the top navigation bar was was taking many seconds to appear and even disappearing or not appearing at all for some people, this should be fixed now, fingers crossed.
Fixed: FBP News notifications, you should once again start getting red and white notifications below the FBP button when there are new posts from the FBP Fan Page on Facebook. If you dont wish to be notified about FBP news in this manner, untick the “Show FBP News Notifications” option which is below the Text Filter box on the FBP options screen, though I wouldnt recommend doing that, as I tend to post very important and relevant information regarding Facebook changes that can cause problems with FBP, and about new FBP features and updates etc.
New: If you want to hide the “Remember password?” box that facebook always displays after you log in, tick the the “Hide Nagging Questions” option (located under the “Timeline Options” heading on the FBP options screen
Changes in v32.1.1
Fixed: Hide notification popups option (the ones that popup in the bottom left corner)
Fixed: Hide “Someone is typing a comment” option
Fixed: “Hide Whole Newsfeed” option
Fixed: New user welcome screen
Added: dark mode to FBP video player (it now automatically detects if you are using Facebook in dark mode)
Changes in v32.1.2
Fixed the hide “Shared a link” option. Previously if this option was selected, the whole fbp newsfeed filtering system would break (including breaking hiding sponsored posts, people you may know and suggested for you etc) That issue and the option itself is fixed now.
Changes in v32.1.3
Fixed the Hide profile Hovercards option
Fixed Top Nav Bar Background Colour option
Fixed the Hide “Stories” box option, it was previously also hiding actual stories themselves, if opened from a notification or via direct link, this should be fixed now so it only hides the stories box at the top of the Newsfeed.
Changes in v32.1.4
Fixed the Hide Lift Black Voices option
Fixed Hide Friend Requests in Right Column option
Changed the FBP Video Player option to only activate for videos greater than 50 seconds long, so the popup shouldnt appear for short animated gifs or videos, as they are very unlikely to have ads in them anyway.

FBP Video Player FAQ:

It doesn’t work on all videos (for example GIF and Live videos), it should work on most others though.
It’s best to turn off Facebook’s video auto play setting (located at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=videos , (otherwise the FBP Video Player dialog box will pop up every time a video post appears on the screen as you scroll the page down)
It may popup occasionally when it shouldn’t for example if theres a profile video on the screen or an auto playing cover video.
The resolution of videos played in the FBP video player is low, because it needs to use the video from the mobile version of Facebook which is lower resolution than the desktop sites video quality, for faster transmission and lower file size.
Because the videos are sourced from the Facebook mobile site, the size of the videos may be a bit on the small side, however the FBP video player lets you double click the video to make it full screen, or you can use the video size controls at the top of the page, to change the size of the video to a size you prefer.
When the video has mouse focus, you can use the left and right arrow keys as a shortcut for skipping backwards and forwards in the video.
If you want to leave the FBP video player video screen and go back to the Newsfeed quickly, press the Esc key on the keyboard.
If there are multiple videos in a Facebook post, the FBP video player wont work (click “Cancel” on the popup dialog box, to use the normal facebook video player instead)
If you are using Firefox, after clicking to open the video in a new tab, Firefox will by default block the new window from opening, as it is set to block “popup” windows. A warning message should show at the top of the screen, giving you options to either unblock popups on facebook.com or just allow this specific popup to open. By default Firefox won’t allow the video in the new tab to autoplay either, so you may need to change another Firefox setting to allow that, if you want it to autoplay right after the new tab is opened.

Revert Site News

In other news, as mentioned previously Revert Site has stopped working due to a Facebook code change, and I have not figured out a solution to get it back. If I do, you can be sure I will post about it here, and also on the FBP and Revert Site fan pages on Facebook.

Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity

FBP Chrome Update Process: After FB Purity for Chrome is first installed, you should from then on receive automatic updates (Chrome checks for extension updates once every 5 hours). If you don’t want to wait, and know an update is available you can force an update by turning on “Developer Mode” on the Chrome extensions management page, then clicking the “Update” button at the top of the page (make sure you don’t have any facebook tabs open, so Chrome can unload the existing version first).

To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore

Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity

Once you have installed the Firefox version of FB Purity, it should auto-update itself when I release new versions. Firefox users who are getting the “Connection Failure” error when trying to install FBP should know this is a known bug in Firefox that occurs if you are using Antivirus software that monitors your web browsing. The work-around, as mentioned in the FAQ is to right click on the install button, then select save, then install the extension by dragging and dropping it on to the Firefox extension management page. This Firefox bug can also prevent Firefox from automatically updating FBP when new versions are released.

Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

If you install the official Edge FBP extension from the Microsoft Edge store, it should auto-update when new versions are released in future. Be aware however that the Microsoft Store has a slow (manual) approval process for accepting extension updates, so the new version will not show up in the Microsoft Store for a day or two after I release an extension update.

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity

The FB Purity extension for Opera needs to be installed via the official Opera Add-ons site, which is where the green Install F.B. Purity button will take you to. Once it has been installed from there, whenever updates to the FBP extension are uploaded and approved on the Opera extensions site (this process can take a few days after an FBP update is published), the version of FBP in your browser should auto-update at some point. It can sometimes be triggered by closing the browser, waiting a bit and re-opening it, there is also an “Update Extensions Now” button on the Opera extensions management page, which if clicked will update all your Opera extensions to the latest versions. In order for the extension to update you may need to first close any open Facebook tabs.

To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page

Important Information for users of the Brave Browser

FB Purity can now be easily installed in the latest release of the Brave browser by going to the FB Purity Chrome Webstore page and clicking the “Add to Chrome” button, once installed it will also autoupdate when new FBP releases are made.

All other FBP users can update to the latest version of F.B. Purity by clicking the green “Install F.B. Purity” button on the FB Purity Install page on FBPURITY.COMand then following the on screen instructions.

Get FB Purity here: https://fbpurity.com

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

If you wish to support FB Purity, please Donate 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 https://fb.com/fluffbustingpurity and click the “Invite Your Friends To Like this Page” link that appears in the left column, then invite all your friends.

Cheers,

Steve FBP

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get FB Purity!

FB Purity Overview:

For those who don’t already know, FB Purity is a safe, free and top rated web browser extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera & Brave. It lets you clean up the junk and customize Facebook the way you want it to be. It has many cool features, such as hiding all the ads, alerting you when friends un-friend you, letting you change the site’s colours, fonts and background image, it lets you stay on the “Most Recent” feed permanently and lots more. FB Purity has been reviewed and highly recommended in many places including the Washington Post, CNET, PCWorld, MacWorld, GetConnected etc and has over 476,000 users worldwide.

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Revert Site v9.2 now lets you revert the Newsfeed to the old Facebook layout / design!

Posted on November 26, 2020 by admin

Revert Site v9.2 now also lets you revert the Facebook Newsfeed to the old Facebook layout / design!

Added Revert Site to my browser and got the old Facebook design back

Revert Site v9.2 now has 2 “switch back” modes, Mode 1 and Mode 2. Mode 1 attempts to do a full facebook account switch, which will revert the whole Facebook site back to the old design, including the Newsfeed. Mode 1 is the default mode that is enabled when Revert Site is first installed. Unfortunately, Mode 1 is not compatible with everybody’s facebook account, so it won’t work for everyone.

When Revert Site is first run, it will twice attempt to load Facebook in Mode 1, and if it fails both times, it will automatically switch you to Mode 2, the fall back Revert Method. Mode 2 is the same Revert method used in the previous version (v8) of Revert Site, and has a few drawbacks and limitations. The main one being it can’t Revert the Newsfeed Page, so when you visit the Newsfeed page Facebook redirects you to the mobile version of the Newsfeed. To make it a bit easier to navigate I have managed to add a sidebar to the mobile newsfeed, so it looks a bit more like the old desktop newsfeed. On the bright side Mode 2 can revert nearly every other page on the site, including Personal Profiles, Business Pages, Events, Messages, etc.

If you are an admin of a facebook Group or Page, and have been using the built in facebook admin option to switch back, and also have Revert Site installed, make sure you switch Revert Site to Mode 1, as if you have it set to “Off” Revert Site will attempt to switch you back to the new facebook design. The good thing for Page/Group admins who use Revert Site and have it set to Mode 1, Revert Site will automatically reset your admin switch, and revert you back to the old facebook design, whenever facebook deciedes your 24 hours or 48 hours is up and tries to switch you back to the new design.

The benefit of using Revert Site for FB Purity users is that FB Purity works a great deal better on the old Facebook layout, as that was the site style that FBP was originally designed to work on. Also if you can only get Mode 2 to work, FBP can benefit by making links in the mobile newsfeed go to the old desktop version of the site.

Get Revert Site free via: https://revertsite.com

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New Version of Revert Site out v5.1 – Fixes getting the old Facebook design back

Posted on October 31, 2020 by admin

What to do if you are getting the “Unsupported Browser” message and getting redirected to the mobile website m.facebook.com

UPDATE 13/11/20 Facebook have broken the latest version of Revert Site, so now when you visit the Newsfeed, you get stuck in an endless loading loop. I strongly recommend disabling/removing Revert Site until I can figure out a solution, it or if one is even possible

You may still be able to get the old design back if you are a group or Page admin, check the top left of the Page/Group admin interface to see if you have the option to switch back for 48 hours, as that seems to be the only way at present to do it.

Please ignore the info below, as its out of date.

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New version of Revert Site lets you get the old Facebook Design / Layout back

Facebook closed the previous loophole that the FB Purity and Revert Site extensions were using to get you the old Facebook design back. Closing the loophole caused a problem for users of FBP and Revert Site, as if you had the “Switch back to the old Facebook design” option turned on in either of those extensions, when visiting Facebook you would be redirected to the mobile version of the site, and told you were using an “Unsupported Browser”

To fix this issue, turn off F.B. Purity’s “Switch back to the old Facebook design” option. Once you have done that, you should find Facebook running normally on the new facebook design. The switch back option is not located in the standard FBP settings screen. The method to access the “Switch back to the old facebook design option” in both FBP and Revert Site is exactly the same, you need to click the red white and blue extension button in the browser’s extensions toolbar, which is the bar to the right of the browser’s URL/Address bar. If the red blue and white button for FBP or Revert Site is not on display, it means you have either disabled the extension in the extensions management page, or it is hidden behind the extension overflow button, which is a grey button at the far right of the extensions toolbar. In chrome its a puzzle piece button, in firefox its a double chevron, in Opera its a wireframe cube button. Other browsers will have a variation on this, but its usually a grey button at the end of the extensions toolbar.

If you click the extensions overflow button, it will show all the hidden extension buttons, and you can click FBP / Revert Site’s button to open the “Switch back to the old Facebook design” setting screen, where you can un-check the checkbox. After you have unticked it, if the facebook page doesnt reload on its own, reload the Facebook page, and you should have the “normal” new facebook design back.

I have decided its too much hassle having a revert option in both FBP and Revert Site, so moving forward I plan on removing the Switch back option in FBP, and instead just have at option in Revert Site, as it will be easier to maintain and support that way. Never fear, I haven’t given up on getting the old design back, I’ve worked hard at getting the Revert functionality working again, and have updated the Revert Site extension with a fix. The updated Revert Site is v5.1 and can be installed via the Revert Site website

If you have turned off FBP’s “Switch back” option and are still getting the “Unsupported browser” message, it means you must have an old version of Revert Site installed, and you just need to update it to v5.1 which you can do via your browser’s extensions mangement page. In Chrome, turn on the “Developer Mode” switch at the top right of the browser’s extensions management page, then click the Update button at the top of the page. In Firefox click the gear icon then select “Check for updates”.

Revert Site v5.1.0 is available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera (and compatible browsers) The edge version is not yet available as I’m waiting for Microsoft to approve the update, however you can install Chrome extensions on Edge, so if you want it right now, just install the Chrome version (though if you already have the old edge version installed, you should uninstall or disable it first.

Although the new version of Revert Site can get the old Facebook design back,There are a few issues you need to be aware of with this new version, its not all plain sailing, unfortunately Facebook are not making this easy for us.

Known Issues with Revert Site v5.1.0

A side effect of this fix is the chat sidebar on the right will not show up, however you can still access your messages via the messages dropdown menu in the top navigation bar, and also via the auxiliary facebook messaging site messenger.com

Though there is now a workaround for getting the chat sidebar back, open a new tab and load the following URL: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/close_window/?app_id=1 Bookmark that link and name it FB Chat, as clicking the bookmark will bring the chat sidebar back. Do your main facebook business in a separate tab, as I havent figured out how to get the chat sidebar back in the main facebook.com site yet, still working on it. But this should do for now.

Please also note If you have any problems with video and voice Messaging on the Facebook site, with this extension installed, again using the auxiliary Facebook messaging website, messenger.com to do your Facebook video and voice calls should work fine.

Marketplace, and Personal Pages will not revert to the old style. Marketplace will open in the new style. Personal pages will open in the mobile version of the site.
If you do get switched to the m.facebook.com (mobile) version of the site, just type fb.com insto the browsers’ URL bar, and it will reset back to the desktop version of the site. I could not get these parts of the site to revert, I tried my best, and open to any ideas anyone has on getting them reverted.

Another side effect of this new fix is the blue bar at the top might scroll upwards, when you scroll the page down. You can fix this by using my other extension FB Purity, which has an option called “Freeze top nav bar“, which is located under the “Top Nav Bar Options” heading on the FBP options screen. You can get FB Purity via FBPURITY .COM

**UPDATE** The missing chat sidebar and top nav bar scrolling up issues will be fixed in the next release RS v5.2 (coming soon to a browser near you)

**FURTHER UPDATE** v6.1 0f Revert Site is out now and it fixes most of the issues affecting previous versions, you can update it by uninstalling and reinstalling Revert Site.

Please like and follow the Revert Site Page on Facebook for the latest news, updates and support etc https://www.facebook.com/pg/revertsite/posts/

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F.B. Purity v30.7.0 – Now compatible with the new Facebook design! Can also switch you to the old design.

Posted on July 1, 2020 by admin

F.B. Purity is now compatible with the new Facebook design

How to get back the old Facebook desing using F.B. Purity v30

Screenshot showing how to get back the old Facebook desing using F.B. Purity

Changes in F.B Purity v30.7.0

Updated :- FB Purity is now compatible with the new Facebook design!
New Option to switch you back to the old Facebook design (see image above for the method to do this) .
New Options to hide the new buttons in the top nav bar in the new Facebook design (Groups, Gaming, Watch, Create (the big + button))
New Option to hide “Marketplace” link in the left column of the Newsfeed
New Option to hide “Messenger Kids” in the left column of the Newsfeed
New Option to hide “Lift Black voices” link in the left column of the Newsfeed
New Option to hide “3D Photos” (option is located under the “Photo posts” Newsfeed filters section)
Fixed hiding “Instant Games” if you have the hide “Game + App Posts” option ticked

Screenshot showing location of the main FBP options text link

Screenshot showing location of FBP options link

On the new Facebook design, the FBP link for opening the FBP options screen is in a new location (see screenshot above) Due to complicated technical reasons, it is now located next to the search box at the top left of the screen. There is also another way to open the FBP options screen, and that is the F.B. Purity link below the Status Update box, in the FBP info bar, as shown below:

Screenshot showing FBP info bar, and FB.Purity options link

Screenshot showing the FBP info bar, and alternative FB.Purity options link

Known Issues:

When attempting to use the new “Switch to old Facebook design” option (or on updating to the new version in the case of Firefox) you may be presented with a dialog asking you for new permissions for the extension.

A Permission window may pop up the first time you use FBP's Revert Option

A Permission window may pop up the first time you use FBP’s Switch to Old Facebook Design Option

These are required by the browser extension API systems in order to use the User Agent switching functionality. Rest assured that FBP does not store or transmit user data or Facebook anywhere, as explained on the FBP Privacy page. If you do not allow the permissions, the Revert option will not work, so click “Allow”.

Due to Facebooks extensive changes to their website, some of FBP’s functionality does not yet work on the new Facebook design, and some of it may never work on it, as Facebook have tried to make it extremely difficult for extension developers to work their magic on the site. I will persevere and try and fix up more of FBP’s functionality, however if there is a particular part of FBP’s functionality that you are missing in the new Facebook design, I would suggest you switch back to the old Facebook design, either using Facebook’s “Switch to Facebook Classic” menu option, or if that’s not possible, use the FBP option shown in the image above, or if that’s not available to you, add a separate User Agent switcher extension to your browser, and set your browser’s User Agent to either “Safari 10” or “Chrome 48” (if there are not presets in the extension, you may need to look up (google) the exact text for those User Agents)

Another known issue, due to Facebook making it harder to develop extensions for the site, more of FBP’s functionality is now dependent on the Facebook language setting, so if you find some functionality is not working correctly, try setting your Facebook language to “English” (US or UK) and see if that fixes it.

FBP’s Auto Hide post feature works a bit differently on the new Facebook design, I couldn’t get it to auto hide the posts properly without problems, so at present it just auto hides the post itself without clicking the “hide post” menu button. The interesting thing about hiding posts with the Facebook menu on the new Facebook design is that they still haven’t fixed the bug where using the hide post menu item only hides the post until the page is refreshed. There is one change from the old design though, and that is once you have clicked the “Hide Post” menu item, then reloaded the page, the post will come back, but the hide post menu item will no longer be available, so Facebook is clearly recording the fact you have clicked the hide post button, but are just not honouring your request to hide it.

Sometimes the FBP link will not show up in the top navigation bar, if that occurs, reloading the page may sometimes make it re-appear, I need to look into whats causing that. If the FBP link is missing in the top bar, and you are on the Newsfeed page you should still be able to open the FBP options screen by clicking the “F.B. Purity” link in the bar just below the Status update box that shows which posts have been hidden.

If you have a problem with a text entry box in Messenger missing, with the new Facebook design, try un-ticking the “Hide Chat box” FBP optioon.

The Watch Vid (No Ads) link function is not yet working on the new Facebook design, if you require this functionality, switch back to the old Facebook design.

If you are using Chrome or Edge, but cannot see the FBP icon/button in the extensions toolbar, the icon may be hidden under the “jigsaw piece” menu, as shown in this screenshot:

If you click the jigsaw piece button, then click the pin icon next to the fbp menu item, it should put the fbp icon back in the extensions toolbar, so you will be able to use the revert to old facebook design option.

If you are using Firefox but cannot see the FBP icon/button in the extensions toolbar, the icon may be hidden behind the “Overflow” menu button (double right pointing chevron) as shown in the following screenshot:

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or if the Overflow button is not showing either, you may need to customize the toolbar to add the Overflow button, then you should be able to access the FBP button.

Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity

To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore

Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity

Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity

To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page

Important Information for users of the Brave Browser

Get FB Purity here: https://fbpurity.com

If you wish to support FB Purity, please Donate to ensure the continuation of this project. Many heartfelt thanks to those who have generously donated! :)

Cheers,

Steve FBP

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get FB Purity!

FB Purity Overview:

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FB Purity v29.5.0 is out now! The Auto Hide Filter now hides images with embedded text! Plus some other fixes.

Posted on May 6, 2020 by admin

Clean up and Customize Facebook with F.B. Purity

FB Purity lets you clean up and customize Facebook

Changes in F.B Purity v29.5.0

Updated the Auto Hide filter so it can now Auto Hide image posts if the text in your Auto Hide filters matches the text Facebook has detected embedded in image posts.
Fixed bug that caused the page to scroll up to the top when clicking on “See More” comment links
Fixed the squashed text in the bottom line of posts that feature large font sizes and coloured backgrounds, when you have the “Normalize Colored / Big Font Statuses” option turned on.
New Option to hide the new “Rooms” box that has appeared under the Status update box on the Newsfeed. The option to hide “Rooms” is located under the “More Options” heading on the FBP options screen.

Known Issue:
Facebook have recently launched a new Reaction type titled “Care” and if you are using FBP’s custom Reaction image sets, you will notice that the custom reaction image for “Angry” is shown if you select “Care” this is not on purpose, its just a side effect caused by Facebook’s code change. It would take too much effort to update all the image sets with a new image for care, and would also take a lot of time to fix the coding to allow the new reaction image, and the fact the new Facebook design is looming, with all new code, means its not worth updating the code for this issue at present.

BTW If you find autoplaying “Watch Party” video posts in your newsfeed annoying, especially as they do not obey Facebook’s dont autoplay videos setting, one thing you can do is to filter out all Watch Party posts from your Newsfeed by putting the text Watch Party into FBP’s Text Filter or Auto Hide filter boxes, that will effectively hide all watch party posts from your Newsfeed.

Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity

To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore

Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity

Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

FB Purity is now available as an official Microsoft Edge extension obtainable directly from the Microsoft Edge store If you install the official Edge FBP extension from the Microsoft Edge store, it should auto-update when new versions are released in future. Be aware however that the Microsoft Store has a slow (manual) approval process for accepting extension updates, so the new version will not show up in the Microsoft Store for a day or two after I release an extension update.

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity

To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page

Important Information for users of the Brave Browser

Get FB Purity here: https://fbpurity.com

If you wish to support FB Purity, please Donate to ensure the continuation of this project. Many heartfelt thanks to those who have generously donated! :)

Cheers,

Steve FBP

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get FB Purity!

FB Purity Overview:

For those who don’t already know, FB Purity is a safe, free and top rated web browser extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera and Brave. It lets you clean up the junk and customize Facebook the way you want it to be. It has many cool features, such as hiding all the ads, alerting you when friends un-friend you, letting you change the site’s colours, fonts and background image, it lets you stay on the “Most Recent” feed permanently and lots more. FB Purity has been reviewed and highly recommended in many places including the Washington Post, CNET, PCWorld, MacWorld, GetConnected etc and has over 468,000 users worldwide.

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FBPurity v29.3.6 is out now – Fixes Hide Sponsored Posts, Sort Notifications Chronologically and Hide Animated Gifs options.

Posted on March 10, 2020 by admin

F.B. Purity v29.3.6 is out now. It fixes the hide “Sponsored Posts” option, the “Sort Notifications Chronologically” option and the “Hide Animated Gifs” options.

F.B. Purity lets you clean up Facebook, by hiding all the ads and other junk you dont want to see.

Changes in F.B Purity v29.3.6

Fixed the hide “Sponsored Box / Posts” option
Fixed the “Sort Notifications Chronologically” option
Fixed the “Hide Animated Gifs” option

Please note that although the hide Sponsored Posts option is fixed, there may be occasions when an ad at the top of the feed will show for a second or two before it gets hidden. I need to look into it some more in order to fix it properly, but if that is a major problem for you, you can use the “nuclear” option which is the hide “Posts from Pages you haven’t Liked” option, as that will hide all Sponsored Posts, but as a side effect it also hides any posts from Pages which you have “Followed” but not “Liked”.

If you are using the Chrome or Firefox extension version of FBP, it should automatically update itself to the newest version. If you are using Opera or Edge you will need to wait for those organisations to approve the extension updates before your browser will auto-update with the new version.

Some people are asking about FBP working on the new Facebook Beta Design, that Facebook are slowly rolling out. FBP is not currently compatible with the new Facebook design. I will update FBP when they roll out the new design to everyone, I do not have it on my account yet. Facebook said they will do a full launch of it in Spring, but they have not specified an actual date. If Facebook have given you the option to switch back to the old design, switch to it, as FBP will still work for you. If they have switched you to the new Newsfeed design, and you don’t have the option to switch back, there is a workaround, which involves changing your browser’s User Agent to “Safari”, as that will let you get the old design back, i made a post about that a few posts back, check it out for more information.

If you would like to support the F.B. Purity project and ensure its continuation, please donate what you can (The donate link is on the FBP options screen)

Many thanks to those who do contribute to FBP, your donations are greatly appreciated! :)

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 https://fb.com/fluffbustingpurity and click the “Invite Your Friends To Like this Page” link that appears in the left column, then invite all your friends.

For those who don’t know, F.B. Purity is a safe, free and top rated browser add-on, for Chrome, Firefox, Safari,Opera and Brave that lets you filter out the parts of Facebook you don’t want to see, and also adds extra functionality, such as hiding all the ads, alerting you if friends un-friend you, giving you the options to change the site’s colours, fonts and background image, gives you the option stay on the Most Recent Newsfeed plus lots more.

F.B. Purity has been reviewed and highly recommended in many places including the Washington Post, CNET, PCWorld, MacWorld, GetConnected etc and has over 463,000 users worldwide.

If you have any questions about F..B Purity please read the FAQ page on FBPURITY.COM

If you have any problems with F..B Purity, please follow the steps in the Troubleshooting Guide on the FAQ page on FBPURITY .COM

Cheers,

Steve

PS :- Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

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F.B Purity v29.2.2 : Fixed Hide Sponsored Posts + Lots more fixes

Posted on August 8, 2019 by admin

FB Purity lets you clean up and customize Facebook

Changes in F.B Purity v29.2.2

Fixed the hide “Sponsored Box / Posts” option.
Fixed hide “Stories” box option to hide “Stories” posts in Newsfeed. (relies on your Facebook language setting being set to English, it it isnt, you need to use FBP’s Text Filter intstead)
Fixed the hide “Commented on this” and hide “Tagged in this” options.
Fixed the hide “going to/interested in event” filter option.
Fixed the hide “People you may know” filter option to auto-hide that box when it shows in the Newsfeed. (relies on your Facebook language setting being set to English, it it isnt, you need to use FBP’s Text Filter intstead)
Added hiding “Add this photo to your story” message below your uploaded photos to the hide stories option
Fixed hiding “Instant Game” (Click to Play) posts when the hide “game / app posts” option is turned on.
Fixed hiding the “Suggested groups” box in right column option that shows on Pages you admin, if you have the hide Suggested Groups option turned on.
Updated the extension / toolbar icon

Known Issue with “Clear Advertisers” functionality: Facebook has changed the way the advertisers page works, its no longer possible to clear the advertisers on the facebook ad preferences page, they now expect you to contact each Advertiser on that page individually, and ask them to remove you from their marketing lists / databases etc, they should give use a simpler way to do this, as it is a lot of work and a very annoying and inefficient process.

Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity

To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore

Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity

Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity

To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page

Important Information for users of the Brave Browser

FB Purity can now be easily installed in the latest release of the Brave browser by going to the FB Purity Chrome Webstore page and clicking the “Add to Chrome” button.

All other FBP users can update to the latest version of FB Purity by clicking the green “Install F.B. Purity” button on the FB Purity Install page on FBPURITY.COM and then following the on screen instructions.

Get FB Purity here: https://fbpurity.com

If you wish to support FB Purity, please Donate to ensure the continuation of this project. Many heartfelt thanks to those who have generously donated! :)

Please also tell all your Facebook friends and family about FBP too, cheers!

Steve FBP

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get FB Purity!

FB Purity Overview:

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Some Sponsored Posts have started to get past FBP’s filter. Here is the solution

Posted on August 7, 2019 by admin

I’m getting some reports of Sponsored Posts showing up again for some people so it might mean Facebook is testing out some new code.

If this is affecting you, as mentioned on the FB Purity FAQ page; FB Purity has a back-up method for blocking “Sponsored Posts“, for when the actual Hide Sponsored Posts option doesn’t work. FBP’s hide ‘Posts from Pages that you haven”t “Liked”‘ option, which is located under the “Link / Page Posts” heading on the FBP options screen, will hide posts from any Pages you haven’t “liked”, which means it will hide Sponsored Posts from Pages you haven’t liked.

A side effect of this option is it will also hide posts from Pages you have only “followed” but not “liked”. If you use this option and you have “followed” some pages but not “liked” them, and want to continue seeing those posts, one way to do so is to view the “Pages Feed” which you can select via the Newsfeed drop-down menu at the top left of the Newsfeed.

If you have any questions please read the FAQ page on FBPURITY .COM

If you have any problems, please follow the Troubleshooting Guide on the FAQ page on FBPURITY .COM

Cheers,

Steve

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FBP v29.0.6 has been released – with a few minor fixes

Posted on June 21, 2019 by admin

FB Purity lets you clean up and customize Facebook

Changes in F.B Purity v29.0.6

Fixed the “Clear Advertisers” button
Fixed the “Custom Reactions” functionality
Fixed the Hide “Pages” left column link option. (This option has actually been renamed from “Pages Section” to just “Pages” as Facebook removed the “Pages Section” of the left column quite a while ago now)
Fixed the Hide “Stories” option for when the Stories box appears in between posts in the Newsfeed.

Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity

Recent FBP Chrome news. FB Purity was rather abruptly removed from the Chrome Webstore recently by Google, as they wrongly claimed FBP was violating one of their policies. I and many FBP users protested against this, and we eventually got it re-listed again.

To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore

Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity

Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity

The FB Purity extension for Opera needs to be installed via the official Opera Add-ons site, which is where the green Install F.B. Purity button will take you to. Once it has been installed from there, whenever updates to the FBP extension are uploaded and approved on the Opera extensions site (this process can take a few days after I upload an update), the version of FBP in your browser should auto-update at some point. It can sometimes be triggered by closing the browser, waiting a bit and re-opening it, there is also an “Update Extensions Now” button on the Opera extensions management page, which if clicked will update all your Opera extensions to the latest versions. In order for the extension to update you may need to first close any open Facebook tabs.

To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page

Important Information for users of the Brave Browser

FB Purity can now be easily installed in the latest release of the Brave browser by going to the FB Purity Chrome Webstore page and clicking the “Add to Chrome” button.

Get FB Purity here: https://fbpurity.com

If you wish to support FB Purity, please Donate to ensure the continuation of this project. Many heartfelt thanks to those who have generously donated! :)

Please also tell all your Facebook friends and family about FBP too, cheers!

Steve FBP

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get FB Purity!

FB Purity Overview:

Posted in Facebook, FB Purity | Tagged bug fixes, clean up facebook, Customize Facebook, Facebook, FB, FB Purity Update, FBP, FBP Update, fluff busting purity, hide facebook stories, hide stories, hide stories on facebook | 2 Comments

FBP v29.0.0 is out now with new Newsfeed Video Player option + many fixes

Posted on May 24, 2019 by admin

FBP v29.0.0 is out now with new Newsfeed Video Player option

F.B. Purity lets you clean up Facebook, by hiding all the ads and other junk you dont want to see.

Changes in F.B. Purity v29.0.0

- New option titled “Show FBP Video Player Link” that adds a link to view videos in the Newsfeed via the FBP video viewer in new tab. If you are using Chrome it also adds a link to let you watch the video full screen with a single click. (This single click feature is unfortunately not available on Firefox due to a restrictive browser API) The FBP video viewer, which was previously only available for videos that contained ads, now loads much faster, and also now gives you the ability to slow down or speed up the video, and you can also choose the size of the video player. Using FBP’s video player means you can bypass the video “light box” and you will no longer get all the “Up Next” videos and other suggested videos, and the hassle of the video moving to the top right corner of the page when you scroll the page down, then going mute when you move it from the top right back to its normal postition, it also means you can keep a video playing in a background tab, while you scroll your newsfeed. Please note that in order to get this functionality working, FBP has to load a lower resolution version of the Facebook video, so some videos may appear quite blocky when viewed full screen in this manner.
- Moved the Hide “Marketplace” option to the “Hide Right Column Links” section of the FBP options screen, as that is where the majority of Marketplace stuff is now shown.
- New option: “Hide Animated Gifs“, Hides animated Gifs in comments (leaves a blank square behind where the gif would have been). Option is located in the “Font, Colour & Design” section of the FBP options screen.
- Fixed adding “X” button to the “Stories” box when it appears in the middle column, to make it easier and more intuitive to hide.
  FB Purity lets you easily hide the Facebook Stories box. Just click the “X” at the top right corner of the Stories box, as shown in this screenshot.
- Moved: FBP’s existing option to hide the “Stories” box, has now moved to a more prominent position below the “More Options” heading on the FBP options screen. This option will hide the “Stories” box whether its located in the central or right hand column.
- Fixed the “Hide Advertisers” buttons functionality on Facebook’s “Ad Preferences” screen
- Moved the “Hide Graphical Smileys / Emoticons” option to the “Font, Colour & Design” section
- Known Issue: The “Sort Notifications Chronologically” option does not work for some people, if its not working for you, for example the notifications are not showing chronologically turn the option off. If the notifications popup goes blank just after you open it, try opening it again, it should go back to normal. If not you can always click the “See All” link at the bottom of the popup, to view all your Notifications chronologically.
- Reminder: If you are using an old out of date browser or Safari, the “Hide Sponsored Box / Posts” option may not work for you as that option uses a newer technology that your browser’s may not support. If you have that option turned on, and Sponsored posts (ads) are still showing in your Newsfeed, you need to turn on a new option titled: Hide Posts from Pages that you haven’t “Liked” that is located under the “Link / Page Posts” heading on the FBP options screen. To learn more about this option, please read the Release Notes for the earlier FBP release.

Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity

To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore

Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity

Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity

To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store

Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity

The FB Purity extension for Opera needs to be installed via the official Opera Add-ons site, which is where the green Install F.B. Purity button will take you to. Once it has been installed from there, whenever updates to the FBP extension are uploaded and approved on the Opera extensions site (this process can take a few days after I upload an update), the version of FBP in your browser should auto-update at some point. It can sometimes be triggered by closing the browser, waiting a bit and re-opening it, there is also an “Update Extensions Now” button on the Opera extensions management page, which if clicked will update all your Opera extensions to the latest versions. In order for the extension to update you may need to first close any open Facebook tabs.

To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page

Important Information for users of the Brave Browser

FB Purity can now be easily installed in the latest release of the Brave browser by going to the FB Purity Chrome Webstore page and clicking the “Add to Chrome” button.

Get FB Purity here: https://fbpurity.com

If you wish to support FB Purity, please Donate to ensure the continuation of this project. Many heartfelt thanks to those who have generously donated! :)

Please also tell all your Facebook friends and family about FBP too, cheers!

Steve FBP

Facebook driving you crazy? Don’t get mad, Get FB Purity!

FB Purity Overview:

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F.B. Purity – Cleans Up Facebook