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

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

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

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**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.