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I already have a whole set of CSS rules I apply to Facebook now, just to make their UI less awful, remove the massive amounts of crud I never want to see, and resize the few things that I do want to see up from their stock postage-stamp sizes.

Blocking .ad-unit or #pagesYouDontCareAbout is easy.

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With Facebook they can serve ads as if they were a regular story, there wouldn't be anything structural, not even image names/sizes, to go on then.

Unless they start misrepresenting stories, you could setup a plugin that keeps track of your friends and only display content from them.

> With Facebook they can serve ads as if they were a regular story

With Facebook's paid reach, "regular stories" are often paid ads to start with.

Presumably, the first time they spend any effort trying to make their ads less trivial to block, it won't be so easy.

For reference:

    #rightCol{
      display:none;
    }
    #contentArea{
      width: 700px !important;
    }

Social Fixer helps a lot.

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