Hacker News Reader

Comment by tonto | Hacker News Reader

This trending topics is pure clickbait. Just like yahoo.com trending topics. Kill it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-trending-fa...

View on HN

This made Facebook usable for me: https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator

I can still use it as chat, address book, check events or particular updates/mentions, but I am not fed and infinite stream of mind sugar whenever I log in...

I still would love to completely quit... I tried a couple of times but I ended going back to contact particular people or to check out events. Facebook is turning into a basic social survival tool for foreigners living in metropolises and it kinda annoys me a lot.

You can do this with uBlock Origin and avoid installing an extra extension.

Yep. I block pretty much all of Facebook besides the chat functionality at this point.

If you only want chat, there's always http://messenger.com :-)

They just started embedding adds into messenger too (thankfully not in the US, yet)

...Eww... What do these ads look like?

Be sure to check out https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages/

I've already got whatsapp, email and normal texts, facebook messenger has literally nothing that I want and poisoned any interest I might have had by removing itself from the mobile website in an attempt to force me to use the app whilst demanding my phone number.

With the amount of junk that's on there nowadays, it's even easier to 'quit Facebook'. The Messenger app makes it easier to do so.

I find that's getting harder and harder to do as they change/randomize the class/id of many elements at each page reload.

Their column container classes/ids are pretty static. I try to keep my custom stylesheet updated to nuke the left and right column sidebars, and expand the actual newsfeed to use the reclaimed width.

No more useless trending topics and clickbait news for me. I do not need to see the outrage-generators or the Kardashian headline of the day.

how you do it?

There's a little eyedropper thing in that popup when you click the uBlock button. Use that to select elements you want to block.

Sometimes what you click is a few levels deep in a container. After you select one, you can click through the items in the "Cosmetic Filters" box until you get to the right level to block the entire element.

Thanks!

Thanks!!! I've had uBlock Origin installed, but it never occurred to me to do this. I should've read the feature list. I've removed everything except for newsfeed (which is all I personally care about).

guide on how to use the "Element Picker": https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker

Reply on news.ycombinator.com