{"id":2741,"date":"2025-06-03T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2025-06-04T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:04:52","slug":"bad-news-facebook-have-made-a-new-change-they-are-now-shoving-suggested-posts-in-the-newsfeed-without-any-identifying-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/bad-news-facebook-have-made-a-new-change-they-are-now-shoving-suggested-posts-in-the-newsfeed-without-any-identifying-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News: Facebook have made a new change, they are now shoving &#8220;Suggested posts&#8221; in the Newsfeed without any identifying text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad News: Facebook have made a new change, they are now shoving &#8220;Suggested posts&#8221; in the default Newsfeed page without any identifying text such as the &#8220;Join&#8221; or &#8220;Follow&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you wish to avoid seeing these unwanted posts in your Newsfeed, you could try switching to viewing the &#8220;Feeds&#8221; pages, which do not have these spammy posts. There are 5 Feeds pages: You can access the Feeds pages via the &#8220;Feeds&#8221; link in the left column of the Newsfeed<\/p>\n<p>Feeds (All) (what used to be known as the &#8220;Most Recent&#8221; page) <a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=all&amp;sk=h_chr\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=all&amp;sk=h_chr<\/a> This page is a combination of all entities you are connected to on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Friends Feed: <a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=friends&amp;sk=h_chr\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=friends&amp;sk=h_chr<\/a> Only displays posts from your Friends.<\/p>\n<p>Favorites Feed: <a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=favorites&amp;sk=h_chr\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=favorites&amp;sk=h_chr<\/a> Only displays posts from Pages \/ Friends etc that you have marked as &#8220;Favorites&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pages Feed: <a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=pages&amp;sk=h_chr\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=pages&amp;sk=h_chr<\/a><br \/>\nOnly displays posts from Pages you have liked or followed.<\/p>\n<p>Groups Feed: <a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=groups&amp;sk=h_chr\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?filter=groups&amp;sk=h_chr<\/a><br \/>\nOnly displays posts from groups you have joined.<\/p>\n<p>F.B. Purity has options to change your default Newsfeed to any of the following Feeds pages, they are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News Sort: Most Recent&#8221; which keeps your Newsfeed permanently switched to the Feeds \/ All page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News Sort : Friends&#8221;, which keeps your Newsfeed permanently switched to the &#8220;Friends Feed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News Sort : Favorites&#8221; which keeps your Newsfeed permanently switched to the &#8220;Favorites Feed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Facebook&#8217;s new change? Do you think Facebook have gone too far this time, or is the worst yet to come?<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;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&#8217;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)<\/p>\n<p>You can get F.B. Purity via <a href=\"http:\/\/FBPURITY.COM\">FBPURITY.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn how F.B. Purity works, please check the User Guide page at <a href=\"http:\/\/user-guide.fbpurity.com\">user-guide.fbpurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please check the FBP FAQ page at <a href=\"http:\/\/faq.fbpurity.com\">faq.fbpurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any problems, please follow all the steps in the Troubleshooting Guide on the FAQ Page at <a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/faq.fbpurity.com\/#troubleshooting\">faq.fbpurity.com\/#troubleshooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can support FBP by donating via <a href=\"http:\/\/donate.fbpurity.com\">donate.fbpurity.com<\/a><br \/>\nThanks very much to everyone who supoorts Fluff Busting Purity!<\/p>\n<p>Please also tell your friends about F.B. Purity.<\/p>\n<p>Please note F.B. Purity is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta or Facebook. Facebook and Meta are trademarks of Meta<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>**UPDATE 4th June ** It seems like Facebook have reverted their silly change, perhaps it was just\u00a0 a bug after all. Suggested Page posts now have the &#8220;Follow&#8221; link at the top again, so FBP can resume filtering those unwanted posts out again.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad News: Facebook have made a new change, they are now shoving &#8220;Suggested posts&#8221; in the default Newsfeed page without any identifying text such as the &#8220;Join&#8221; or &#8220;Follow&#8221; links at the top of the post, that text was what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/bad-news-facebook-have-made-a-new-change-they-are-now-shoving-suggested-posts-in-the-newsfeed-without-any-identifying-text\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[40,26,429,949,950,16,766,428,105,47],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-fbpurity","tag-clean-up-facebook","tag-customize-facebook","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-changes","tag-facebook-news","tag-facebook-purity","tag-facebook-update","tag-fbpurity","tag-fbp","tag-fluff-busting-purity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}