F.B. Purity v34.2.4 is out now! Fixes hiding sponsored posts, and also fixes newsfeed filtering

Posted on June 7, 2022 by admin
F.B. Purity the dream solution for hundreds of Facebook problems!

F.B. Purity lets you clean up and Customize Facebook. It hides all the Sponsored posts in the Facebook Newsfeed amongst many other useful features

Changes in F.B. Purity v34.2.4

  • Fixed hiding Sponsored Posts (Please Note: due to the way facebook deploys new code to random groups of people, this option may still not work now f0r some people, though it seems to be working ok for the majority,) This option should hide the Sponsored posts (ads) in the Newsfeed and those in the right hand column.
  • Fixed Newsfeed filtering in general (including the Text Filter and Auto Hide filter and most of the built in Newsfeed filters such as the Reels filter for example.
  • Fixed the Hide Reels filter option (located under the “Video Posts” heading on the FBP options screen, also fixed hiding the “Stories / Reels / Rooms” box at top of feed if all relevant hide options (Stories, Reels & Rooms) are ticked
  • Fixed the bug where the whole Watch feed would get hidden if an ad was detected
  • Fixed the hide Group Conversations option (located under the Chat options heading)
  • Fixed the “Show more friends” (in chat) option (it makes the profile icons smaller in the chat list, so more names will fit in the right column)
  • Fixed the Hide “Offline friends in chat” option.
  • Fixed the hide “Friend requests” in the Right Column  option
  • Fixed the Show Deactivated Friends function ( To try it click the “Show deactivated friends” link on fb.com/me/friends )
  • Fixed a bug in the “Hide profile hovercards” option that was causing the contact list in chat box in the right column to disappear
  • New Added buttons for clearing the Facebook ad preferences  page (Advertisers and Ad topics)
  • Known Issue: The “Move Nav Bar to the Top” option is broken due to a facebook code change. 

If you are using Chrome (or chrome clone),  Firefox or Opera and have FBP installed already it should update itself to the latest version automatically. If you are using the GM Script version of FBP you can go to the script install page on install.fbpurity.com and click the install script link, then follow the on screen instructions to update the script.

If you have Microsoft Edge and are using the Edge extension version of FBP you wlil need to wait a few days before they review and approve the latest extension update. Alternatively you can switch to using the Chrome extension version of FBP, as Edge can also run Chrome extensions.

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 red “Invite Friends” link that appears near the top of the Page, 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 including Sponsored Posts, 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 478,000 users worldwide.

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F.B. Purity v34.0 is out now: New options: Hide Reels and move navigation back back to the top

Posted on May 4, 2022 by admin

Hide Reels and Short Videos on Facebook with F.B. Purity

Hide Reels and Short Videos on Facebook with F.B. Purity

F.B. Purity the dream solution for hundreds of Facebook problems!

F.B. Purity lets you clean up and Customize Facebook. It hides all the Sponsored posts in the Facebook Newsfeed amongst many other useful features

Changes in F.B. Purity v34.0 / v34.0.2 / v34.0.3

  • Fixed hiding Sponsored Posts (Please Note: it seems since this update was published Facebook have already changed their code again, so this option may not work now f0r some people) This option should hide the Sponsored posts (ads) in the Newsfeed and those in the right hand column.
  • Fixed the “Show Log Out Button” option (located under the Top Nav Bar Options heading on the options screen)
  • New: Hide “Reels” option  This option hides the “Reels and Short Videos” posts from showing up in the Facebook Newsfeed and is located under the “Video Posts” heading on the FBP options screen.
  • New “Move Nav Bar back to the top” option, This option is for those people who have had their navigation bar moved to the side of the screen and want it back at the top again. This option is located under the “Left Column Links” heading on the FBP options screen.
  • Fixed: The Auto Hide Filter. I think recently by auto clicking the hide post button, it was sometimes causing a Facebook warning popup to show up. I have removed the autoclicking code, so the popup should not show up any more, but it will still hide the post from view.

If you are using Chrome, Edge or Firefox and have FBP installed already it should update itself to the latest version automatically. If you are using the GM Script version of FBP you can go to the script install page on install.fbpurity.com and click the install script link, then follow the instructions to update the script.

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 including Sponsored Posts, 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 477,000 users worldwide.

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F.B. Purity v33.9.8 fixes the hide Facebook Sponsored Posts functionality!

Posted on April 17, 2022 by admin

 

F.B. Purity the dream solution for hundreds of Facebook problems!

F.B. Purity lets you clean up and Customize Facebook. It hides all the Sponsored posts in the Facebook Newsfeed amongst many other useful features

Changes in F.B. Purity v33.9.8

  • Fixed hiding Sponsored Posts

If you are using Chrome or Firefox and have fbp installed already it should update itself to the latest version automatically. If you are using the GM Script version of FBP you can go to the script install page on install.fbpurity.com and click the install script link, then follow the instructions to update the script.

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

**UPDATE 28th April 2022** : It seems since this version was released, facebook have changed the sponsored post code once again for some people causing fbp’s hiding functionality to break, don’t worry, I am looking into getting this fixed.

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 477,000 users worldwide.

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Some people are experiencing problems viewing posts on the Newsfeed, Groups and Pages – Solution (disable adblock plus for facebook)

Posted on November 23, 2021 by admin

** IMPORTANT PLEASE READ ** Many people are currently experiencing a problem viewing their newsfeeds and groups, with them showing no posts, this is due to a clash between FBP and the Adblock Plus extension, if you disable Adblock Plus for the Facebook website, things should go back to normal. FBP Blocks most ads on Facebook anyway, so you shouldnt notice much of a difference. Alternative options are to install “UBlock Origin” instead of Adblock Plus, as that is a higher rated and better extension, and does not cause a clash with F.B. Purity.
In other news, FBP V33.9.5 is out now, which fixes hiding the Sponsored Posts and Newsfeed filtering for most people, and also fixes the FBP Video player option (which, when enabled, lets you view facebook videos without ads)
For those who don’t already know F.B. Purity is a safe, free & top rated browser add-on that lets you Clean up & Customize Facebook. It allows you to hide the crap you don’t want to see, with many options for hiding the visual clutter and annoyances that Facebook forces us to deal with, such as ads (Sponsored posts etc), Rooms, Stories, Games, People You May Know, etc. It also lets you filter out posts from the Newsfeed based on the words or phrases you specify, functionality that Facebook itself does not give you.
Get F.B. Purity via FBPURITY .COM
To learn how F.B. Purity works, please read the User Guide page on FBPURITY .COM
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
If you would like to donate to support the F.B. Purity project, you can do so via DONATE.FBPURITY .COM
Thanks to everyone who helps out by supporting F.B. Purity, it really is very much appreciated!
Cheers!
Steve
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If you are getting the “Something went wrong” error, please know this is not an FBP Bug, its a Facebook bug

Posted on October 29, 2021 by admin

If you are getting the “Something went wrong” error, please know this is not an FBP Bug, its a Facebook bug in the “Most Recent” version of the newsfeed. You can test this for yourself, by disabling FBP then loading “Most Recent” which is at https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

This bug may only seem to manifest itself when you have FBP enabled, but if that is the case, it just means you have turned on FBP’s “News Sort: Most Recent” option which attempts to keep your Newsfeed permanently set to the “Most Recent” setting. So turning that option off temporarily then loading https://www.facebook.com should reset back to Facebook’s default setting for the Newsfeed which is “Top Posts” and currently that version of the feed is the only one that is working.

** UPDATE ** This Facebook bug appears to crop up on a seemingly regular basis, unfortunately there is nothing fbp can do to fix that bug, only facebook can fix it. If you are regularly getting that error, turn off fbp’s option to automatically redirect you to the “most recent” feed.

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Sorry to those who are still waiting for a fix for the issue of Sponsored posts showing/ etc.

Posted on October 7, 2021 by admin

Sorry to those who are still waiting for a fix for the issue of Sponsored posts showing/ etc. Unfortunately my dad got very ill and sadly passed away, so this has greatly impacted my ability to work on this project recently, so I’ve been taking a break to try and deal with this.
 
I did manage to release 2 updates but after he died, i didnt get round to writing the release notes etc. for them.
 
Basically the latest available version of FBP now is v33.4
Fixed in this version are Hiding the “Stories” box, Hiding the “Rooms” box. New options for hiding the “Events” and “News” buttons in the top nav(igation) bar. It also fixes hiding some “Sponsored Posts” that were getting through for some people (but not all). I still do not have the facebook update that completely breaks FBP, so it is still working fine on my newsfeed at hiding the Sponsored Posts etc. I am still working on getting a fix for the people with the big change, but its difficult to do until Faceobok actually release the code change to my Facebook account.
 
Another problem is unfortunately v33.4 of the FBP extension is not available for Firefox, due to unknown reasons (theres been no official explanation from Firefox) Apparently there is a massive hold up in the approval queue for extension updates, so it may be some weeks (its impossible to say how long) before v33.4 will become available as a Firefox extension. A couple of workarounds for this 1) Install the Tampermonkey extension, then install the GM script version of FBP. 2) Use a Chrome(ium) based browser (such as Opera or Brave for example) and install the relevant FBP extension for that browser.
 
I’ve not yet updated the documentation on the FBP website with the new version number for FBP, as the Firefox version is lagging behind, due to problems at Mozilla. Will get round to that soon hopefully.
 
Please be patient while I work through things.
 
Thanks,
 
Steve
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Facebook is rolling out a big code change that breaks a lot of F.B. Purity’s functionality!

Posted on September 6, 2021 by admin

Facebook is currently rolling out a big code change that breaks a lot of F.B. Purity’s functionality!

This code change breaks many of FBP’s functions, such as Ad hiding (Sponsored Posts), Newsfeed filtering,  the hiding of certain page elements etc. Facebook does not roll out changes to the site to everyone at the same time, however I know from the reports I am receiving many people already are being affected by this change.

Facebook’s code change has not reached my account yet, which makes working on fixes very hard, but please be assured I am working on getting things fixed, so please be patient, as it may take quite a while to restore FBP’s functionality.

To stay up to date on the latest news regarding this issue, please make sure you “Like” and “Follow” the FBP Fan page on Facebook, as I will be posting news about it there.

If you wish to support the F.B. Purity project, you can do so by donating, via the FBP Donation Page

Many thanks to all F.B. Supporters out there!

Best Regards,

Steve

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F.B. Purity v32.4.1 is out now! Fixes the FBP options screen not working, plus some other fixes.

Posted on April 23, 2021 by admin

F.B. Purity v32.4.1 is out now! Fixes the FBP options screen not working, plus some other fixes.

  • Fixed FBP options screen, which wasnt showing when the FBP link was clicked
  • Improved the Show Deactivated Friends function.
  • Fixed  “News Sort: Most Recent” option. In some cases previously it wasn’t switching to “Most Recent” when the “Home” button or “F” logo were clicked too soon after the Page was initially loaded.
  • Fixed “Highlight Public Posts” option.
  • Removed a few FBP options that are not currently working on the new Facebook design to make the FBP options screen less cluttered. The following options were removed: “Fix external links”,  “Expand news column”, “hide reactions bar” and “News Sort: Friends Feed”. (Please note the “friends feed” was a facebook provided feed which they have removed, so its not possible to fix this option)

In other news, I’ve been working on fixing the “Expand News Column” option, have made some progress with it, but its not ready to go live. Will also try and get the hide Auto Tag Suggestions option working again.

Known Issues with v32.4.1
Facebook game players who were using FBP to hide the right column while playing games, may have noticed that function stopped working in this release, you can still hide the right column of games (which are showing in the old design still) by adding the following CSS code to the CSS box on the FBP options screen:

/* Hide the right hand column for games still showing in the old (blue bar at top) design */
rightCol {display:none}

FBP v32.4.1 is currently only available for Chrome, Firefox, GM Script. The Edge & Opera versions will become available when those companies approve the update (Its probably better to just install the Chrome version of the extension in those browsers, as both Edge and Opera are compatible with Chrome extensions and Google approves the updates much faster)

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 until a few days 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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