{"id":2193,"date":"2019-04-27T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:12:20","slug":"fbp-v27-6-0-out-now-adds-a-new-method-for-blocking-sponsored-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/fbp-v27-6-0-out-now-adds-a-new-method-for-blocking-sponsored-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"FBP v27.6.0 out now &#8211; Adds a new method for blocking sponsored posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>FBP v27.6.0 out now &#8211; Adds a new method for blocking Sponsored Posts<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_1791\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1791\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fbp-adblocker-promo-image-300x300.png\" alt=\"F.B. Purity lets you clean up Facebook, by hiding all the ads and other junk you dont want to see.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fbp-adblocker-promo-image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fbp-adblocker-promo-image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fbp-adblocker-promo-image-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fbp-adblocker-promo-image.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">F.B. Purity lets you clean up Facebook, by hiding all the ads and other junk you dont want to see.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This release has a fix for\u00a0 sponsored posts that are not being hidden for some people. <strong>Please note<\/strong> if you have the<strong> Hide &#8220;Sponsored Box \/ Posts&#8221;<\/strong> option turned on and you are not seeing any Sponsored Posts, then you don&#8217;t need to change your current settings.<\/p>\n<h2>Changes in F.B. Purity v27.6.0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New:<\/strong> Option to hide posts from Pages that you haven&#8217;t liked titled: <strong>Hide &#8220;Posts from Pages that you haven&#8217;t liked&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Change:<\/strong> Renamed <strong>Hide<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Fan Page Posts<\/strong>&#8221; option to <strong>Hide &#8220;Page Posts&#8221;<\/strong> and moved the option under the &#8220;<strong>Link \/ Page Posts<\/strong>&#8221; heading on the FB Purity settings screen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fixed:<\/strong> The &#8220;<strong>R<\/strong>&#8221; key functionality. Pressing the &#8220;<strong>R<\/strong>&#8221; key when viewing the Newsfeed (Most Recent \/ Top Stories or Pages Feed ) FBP should\u00a0 re-sort the currently loaded posts in that feed into the correct Chronological order.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fixed:<\/strong> If you have &#8220;whitelisted&#8221; any friends, the green text &#8220;<strong>Whitelisted<\/strong>&#8221; should appear at the top of any post they make, to make it clear\u00a0 why that post is bypassing FBP&#8217;s filters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fixed:<\/strong> The <strong>Watch Vid (No ads)<\/strong> link that gets added to video posts that contain video ads didnt work on some &#8220;Facebook Watch&#8221; posts in the Newsfeed, it should work again now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Known Issue: <\/strong>The &#8220;S<strong>how full date\/time on posts<\/strong>&#8221; option no longer works correctly due to a Facebook code change, this is quite hard to fix, so may be broken for a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes on the new option for hiding Sponsored Posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fix for hiding Sponsored Posts for those people who are still seeing them consists of a new Newsfeed filter option, located under the &#8220;<strong>Link \/ Page Posts<\/strong>&#8221; heading on the FBP options screen, titled:\u00a0 <strong>Hide &#8220;Posts from Pages that you haven&#8217;t liked&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you tick that box it should hide all posts from Pages which you haven&#8217;t &#8220;liked&#8221; from the Newsfeed, which means it will hide all sponsored posts (from Pages you haven&#8217;t liked).\u00a0 A side effect of hiding all posts from Pages you haven&#8217;t liked, is that it will also hide posts from Pages you have followed (but not liked).\u00a0 There is no easy way to get around that with the code, as Facebook does not easily provide a list of Pages that the user has followed that FBP can access .<\/p>\n<p>The workaround for people who have followed Pages and still wish to see\u00a0 posts from the followed Pages in their Newsfeed would be to occasionally view the &#8220;Pages Feed&#8221; which will show you the posts from Pages you have liked and also the posts from Pages you have followed. You can access the &#8220;Pages Feed&#8221; at the following URL <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/?sk=pages\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/?sk=pages<\/a> FB Purity also adds a link to this page in a couple of places, on the Newsfeed (3 dots) drop down menu at the top left of the Newsfeed, and also on the <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/pages\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/pages<\/a> page. Of course, if you don&#8217;t follow any Pages (instead of liking them) then this issue won&#8217;t affect you.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing to note about this new option is that if the Sponsored post is from a Page that you have &#8220;liked&#8221; then it will still show in the Newsfeed, however its worth noting that Sponsored Posts are usually just &#8220;normal&#8221; posts that the Page has paid Facebook some money so they will show it to more people than normally would see it (i.e. to people who haven&#8217;t actually liked or followed the page) so you most likely would want to see the Sponsored Posts that the Page you have liked is posting.<\/p>\n<p>Please note this option works in conjunction with the hide &#8220;Sponsored Box \/ Posts&#8221; option, so if you are still seeing Sponsored Posts even though you have the hide &#8220;Sponsored Box \/ Posts&#8221; option ticked, you should leave it ticked and also tick the new option, as the hide &#8220;Sponsored Box \/ Posts&#8221; option also hides ads on the right hand side of the Newsfeed and may catch ads in the Newsfeed that the new option doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Information for Chrome Users of F.B. Purity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you have installed FB Purity for Chrome, you should from then on receive automatic updates (Chrome checks for extension updates once every 5 hours). If you don&#8217;t want to wait, and know an update is available you can force an update by turning on \u201c<strong>Developer Mode<\/strong>\u201d on the Chrome extensions management page, then clicking the \u201c<strong>Update<\/strong>\u201d button at the top of the page (make sure you don\u2019t have any facebook tabs open, so Chrome can unload the existing version first).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0To let other Google Chrome users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/fbfluffbustingpurity\/nmkinhboiljjkhaknpaeaicmdjhagpep\/reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Google Chrome Webstore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important information for Firefox users of F.B. Purity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefox<\/strong> users who are getting the &#8220;<strong>Connection Failure<\/strong>&#8221; error when trying to install FBP, I have discovered the reason why this is happening. It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=1308251\">known bug<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Information for Microsft Edge users of F.B. Purity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FB Purity<\/strong> is now available as an official Microsoft Edge extension obtainable directly from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/store\/productid\/9MXGZZ40KDLN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Edge store<\/a><\/strong> 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. Please also note FBP is now also available in the Edge Store for the new development version of Edge that is based on Chromium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0To let other Microsoft Edge users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/store\/productid\/9MXGZZ40KDLN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity in the Microsoft Edge Store<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Information for Opera users of F.B. Purity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;<strong>Update Extensions Now<\/strong>&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0To let other Opera users know that FBP is safe and a great way to clean up Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.opera.com\/en\/extensions\/details\/fb-purity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please leave a 5* review for F.B. Purity on the Opera Extensions Page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Information for users of the Brave Browser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FB Purity<\/strong> can now be easily installed in the latest release of\u00a0 the\u00a0<strong>Brave <\/strong>browser by going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/is.gd\/fbpchrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FB Purity Chrome Webstore page<\/a> and clicking the &#8220;<strong>Add to Chrome<\/strong>&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All other \u00a0FBP users<\/strong> can update to the latest version of FB Purity by clicking the green \u201c<strong>Install F.B. Purity<\/strong>\u201d button on the <strong><a href=\"\/\/install.fbpurity.com\/\">FB Purity Install page on FBPURITY.COM<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and then following the on screen instructions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get FB Purity here: <a class=\"ot-anchor aaTEdf\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/fbpurity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fbpurity.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have any problems with or questions about FBP, please\u00a0use the available help resources on this website, including the <a href=\"\/\/user-guide.fbpurity.com\/\">FBP User Guide<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/faq.fbpurity.com\/\">FBP FAQ page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0which includes a comprehensive <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/faq.htm#troubleshooting\">Troubleshooting Guide<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that you should follow if you have any problems.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to support <strong>FB Purity<\/strong>, <strong><a title=\"Donate to support the FB Purity project.\" href=\"\/\/donate.fbpurity.com\/\">please Donate<\/a><\/strong> to ensure the continuation of this project. Many heartfelt thanks to those who have generously donated! :)<\/p>\n<p>Please also tell all your Facebook friends and family about <strong>FBP<\/strong> too, cheers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve FBP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook driving you crazy?\u00a0Don\u2019t get mad, <a href=\"\/\/install.fbpurity.com\/\">Get FB Purity<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FB Purity Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t already know,\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Install FB Purity and enjoy a cleaner and user customisable Facebook\" href=\"\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/\">FB<\/a><a title=\"Install FB Purity and enjoy a cleaner and user customisable Facebook\" href=\"\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/\"> Purity<\/a><\/strong> is a safe, free and top rated web browser extension for <strong>Google Chrome<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Firefox<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Edge<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Safari, <\/strong><strong>Opera and Brave<\/strong>. It lets you<strong>\u00a0clean up the junk\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>customize Facebook <\/strong>the way you want it to be. It has many cool\u00a0features,\u00a0such as <strong>hiding all the ads<\/strong>, alerting you when friends <strong>un-friend\u00a0<\/strong>you, letting you\u00a0change the site\u2019s colours, fonts and background image, \u00a0it lets you stay on the \u201c<strong>Most Recent\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0feed permanently and lots more. <strong>FB Purity<\/strong>\u00a0has been reviewed and highly recommended in many places including\u00a0the <strong>Washington Post, CNET, PCWorld, MacWorld, GetConnected etc\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>has over 452,000 users worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBP v27.6.0 out now &#8211; Adds a new method for blocking Sponsored Posts This release has a fix for\u00a0 sponsored posts that are not being hidden for some people. 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