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I continue to be surprised at how few people have heard of fbpurity[1], a fantastic browser extension that blocks all Facebook ads and lets you filter out specific types of content (links, memories, etc.). It's dramatically improved my Facebook experience; I now see exactly the type of content that I want to see (updates on friend's lives) and nothing more.

[1] https://www.fbpurity.com/

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I mean one look at the website kind of tells you why.

The extension could be a lot less intrusive as well - just compare it to uBlock Origin for example. There doesn't need to be an onboarding message. I don't need to see "F.B. Purity hid:" prominently in the middle of my feed - just put that at the bottom right of the screen in gray text or in the extension. Etc.

I'm probably going to uninstall it because it makes FB even uglier.

Give this a try.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ad-blocker-for-fac...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fb_ad_block/

> I mean one look at the website kind of tells you why.

Yep, that's horrific. I'd immediately back out of that if I landed on the page.

You could check out Social Fixer. [1] It's been around for several years, is free and offers many features. The creator/maintainer of Social Fixer was also interviewed in Ars Technica.

[1]: https://socialfixer.com/index.html

Unfortunately it's not supported on mobile Firefox.

It doesn't do that for me. Must be your settings.

Literally just installed it and used the defaults. "Must be your settings" means the default settings suck.

I prefer to keep my Facebook experience as painful as Mark Zuckerberg intended it to be. (minus notifications of course)

I use it to order group posts by time, so I can use groups as forums. It's nice for that. However, their UI and worse, the defaults are not great so I can see why it's not all that popular.

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