FB-Purity.net - Clean Up FB (Latest Beta)

Description

FB-PURITY.NET - CLEAN UP AND CUSTOMIZE FACEBOOK - PURITY FOR A BETTER FACEBOOK

FB-Purity.net is a browser extension / add-on that lets you clean up and customise Facebook. Purity filters out the junk you don't want to see, leaving behind the stories and page elements you do wish to see. The list of story types that FBP hides is customizable to your taste.


★★★ Frequently Asked Questions / Help

✔ What is FB-Purity.net?

FB-Purity.net alters your view of Facebook, Purity shows only relevant information to you. It lets you remove the annoying and irrelevant stories from your newsfeed such as game and application spam, ads and sponsored stories. It can also hide the boxes you don't want to see on each side of the newsfeed.

FB-Purity.net helps you to take control of your Facebook experience. It does this by letting you filter out the spam, such as ads, quizzes and games etc, and also the messages such as "x became a fan of y", "x joined group y", "x became friends with y", "x is attending event y". See the FB-Purity.net features page for the full list of what FBP can do.

Brought to you by FB-Purity.net team, this extension is not Fluff Busting Purity (fbpurity.com) / Facebook Cleaner / Social Fixer / SocialReviver / Better Facebook ...etc. Although these addons / scripts have similar features.

✔ Can I Hide the "Trending" Topics box from the right hand side of the newsfeed?

FB-Purity.net has a built in option for hiding the Trending Topics box, just tick the "Hide Trending Topics" option on the FBP options screen.

✔ How can i hide all posts in the newsfeed telling me what my friends have liked (& reacted to) or commented on?

FBP has filter options for most different story types that show up in the newsfeed. There are separate options to hide "likes" based on what the person has liked, e.g there are options to hide "liked photos", "liked videos", "liked status" etc, those options are under their respective title heading, so to hide "liked photos", open the "Photo Stories" section of the FBP options screen, etc. The same goes for hiding "comment" stories. A variation on this is the "liked this" and "commented on this" options, sometimes posts in the newsfeed have "liked this" or "commented on this" in the header of the post, where the type of post is not specified, so there are separate options for hiding those types of posts. P.S. If you are ever unsure of what an FBP option does, hover your mouse pointer over it, and it should present you with further information on that option. Please note if you tick the "hide liked" options they will also hide the equivalent "reacted to" type posts.

✔ Can I prevent my likes and comments from showing up in other peoples newsfeeds?

No, unfortunately this is not possible, the only way to stop that completely is to stop liking and commenting on things.

✔ Can I disable autoplay videos from playing automatically in the Facebook newsfeed?

To disable the autoplay of videos in the newsfeed, open the "Video Stories" section of the FBP options screen, and click the link that says "Click here to disable Autoplay". The link opens Facebook's settings page, where FBP will attempt to turn autoplay off. If it is not successful, you can manually change the setting on that page yourself. Or if that doesn't work, you can try this.

✔ Can I stop Facebook automatically suggesting Tags / replacing what I am typing with Tagged People/Pages when writing comments / status messages?

Yes you can, tick the Hide "Auto Tag Suggestions" option on the FBP options screen, and it will stop Facebook replacing your text. With the option enabled, if you do wish to tag someone, type the "@" symbol, and it temporarily allows you to tag again. You may need to type a space after you finish typing your final word of your comment or status to stop Facebook automatically replacing your final word with a tag.

✔ Can i hide newsfeed posts that say a friend was "mentioned" ot "tagged" in it?

Yes, just tick the corresponding newsfeed filtering options that have "tagged in" in the title

✔ How do I access the FBP Options screen?

Once you have FB-Purity.net installed, you can access the options screen by clicking the "FBP" or "FB-Purity.net" links at the top of your facebook homepage.

✔ How can I hide the "News Ticker" bar? (the scrolling column of news in the right hand column)

Yes, just tick the option to hide "News Ticker" on the FBP settings screen and that will hide it.

✔ How can I turn off / hide the Sponsored box and Sponsored Stories / Suggested Posts / More From / Related / Similar To Posts in the newsfeed (Adverts)?

Just tick the Hide Sponsored Box option on the FBP options screen, this will also hide the Suggested Posts, and other Sponsored stories in the newsfeed. This setting also hides the ads on the timeline pages too.

✔ How can I edit / customise the list of games and applications that FB-Purity.net hides?

If you want to turn off application filtering entiredly, just tick the "hide application stories" option in the fbp settings screen.

✔ How can I hide posts that feature specific words or phrases? For example politics, sports, fashion, celebrities, Trump, Sanders, Cruz, Clinton, Kanye, Kardashians etc

FBP's Custom Text filter lets you hide posts in the newsfeed that feature words or phrases that you specify.

✔ In the Custom Text filter, is it possible to hide whole words only, eg hide any mentions of "hat" but not words containing the letters "hat" such as "what" or "that" etc?

Yes, in order to do this you need to use some special Regular Expression syntax.

✔ Is it possible to use wildcard search patterns In the Custom Text filter?

Yes, it is possible, you need to use "Regular Expressions" syntax.

✔ Can I hide or minimise the "Viewing Most Recent" box that shows up when you have selected to view the newsfeed sorted by most recent?

Yes, FBP has an option to force Facebook to always show you the most Recent feed, and this option also minimises the "Viewing Most Recent" box at the top of your newsfeed. If you have this option enabled but you still see the Top Stories page, try reloading your page, as that should fix it.

✔ How can I turn off (hide) the Suggestions (aka Recommended Pages, Find Friends, Get Connected, Connect with Friends, Find More Friends, People to subscribe to) box?

Just tick the Hide "Sponsored box" option on the FBP options screen.

✔ Can I hide the newsfeed completely?

Yes.

✔ How can I hide the "People you may know" box on Facebook?

Yes.

✔ Can I turn off the "Deleted Friend Alerts" that get shown when my friends delete me / unfriend from their friend lists?

Yes there is an option on the FBP options screen titled "Deleted Friend Alerts", un-ticking that option turns it off.

✔ Is it possible to show a Deleted Friends Alert again if I accidentally dismiss it before reading it properly?

Yes, if you click the "F" key shortly after the popup screen has gone away, the Deleted Friends Alert should popup again, so you can read it properly, alternatively, if you check the left column of your newsfeed, there will be a "deleted friends alert" link, highlighted with a pink background, clicking the link will also re-play the alert. Deleted Friends Alerts are automatically cleared an hour after popping up.

✔ The deleted friend alerts are showing incorrect results, why is that?

Deleted friend alerts can be triggered by friends de-activating their account, in this situation you have not actually been unfriended, but that person will no longer show up in your friends list while the account is deactivated. They will be back in your list when the account is re-activated. If you have a very large number of friends, you may see quite a few of these alerts, due to the number of your friends who may temporarily be deactivating their accounts regularly. If you do repeatedly see these alerts and don't want to see them any more, you can turn the "Deleted Friend Alerts" off via the FBP options screen. Other possible reasons, could be a Facebook glitch or browser malfunction. Deleted friend alerts can also be caused by a person converting their personal profile into a "Fan Page".

✔ Can I hide the "New Stories" button that pops up on the newsfeed screen?

FB-Purity.net has a built in option to hide this, its under the "More Options", titled "New Stories Popup Button"

✔ Can I use FB-Purity.net to hide Facebook's Memories feature that digs up old posts and puts them in the newsfeed?

If you install the latest version of FBP, it has built in filtering options for hiding Memories posts ("Your Memories", and "Shared Memories" from the newsfeed, they are under the "Various Story Types" heading.

✔ Can I hide comments that just consist of Tagged Names?

Yes, FB-Purity.net gives you a keyboard shortcut "Z", which when pressed "Zaps" (temporarily hides) all name tag comments.

✔ Can I hide the popups that appear when I hover my mouse over User names or Page names?

Yes, FBP has an option called Hide "Profile Hovercards".

✔ Facebook has started showing less links under the groups, interest lists and pages section in the left hand column, can FBP fix this?

No, thats not something that FBP can change. You can use Facebook's "Add to favorites" button in FB groups, events, pages, that will put that link permanently in the left hand column.

✔ Does FB-Purity.net have or will it in the future have a functionality to disable the Photo Lightbox viewer / Theatre view Popup windows?

No. Facebook have changed the way the popup photo viewer works, and there is no way to disable it.

✔ How can I hide the list suggestions box on friends list pages?

You can do this with a little CSS code snippet.

✔ How can I hide the Facebook Chat box?

You can hide Facebook Chat box / interface using FBP (N.B. It doesn't log you out of chat or disable the chat, it just hides the interface) Simply tick the hide "Chat box" option on the FBP settings screen to hide it.

✔ Why is FB-Purity.net hiding all my friends in Chat?

It seems like Facebook has changed the code for this, so if all your friends are being hidden in chat, and you have the "hide offline friends" option turned on, turn it off.

✔ How can I revert the bubble chat back to the simple old style chat interface?

FB-Purity.net has an option to convert the new Bubble Chat back to the old style chat, just open the FBP options screen then tick the "hide Bubble Chat" option.

✔ Can I hide the Offline or Mobile friends in Chat?

Yes you can hide both, FB-Purity.net has 2 such options. 1 to hide offline friends, and the other hides offline and mobile friends in chat.

✔ What happened to FB-Purity.net's Hide Offline friends in chat option?

Facebook broke the functionality of it, which meant it was hiding all friends not just offline friends, I've now managed to fix it in the latest version of FBP. Re-install for the fixed version. Please note the new "Hide offline + Mobile friends" option only works if the Facebook language is set to English.

✔ Facebook has started forcing us to use the small chat window at the bottom of the screen when sending messages, can I go back to the old method for sending messages?

FB-Purity.net has an option called "Full Screen Chat" which when enabled, will let you open all chat messages in the full Screen messaging system (aka the Inbox) instead of opening the small chat tab windows at the bottom of the screen.

✔ Can I stop group posts from showing up in my newsfeed?

Yes, just tick the Hide "Wrote on Timeline" (used to be called "Wrote on Wall") option. This hides posts to groups, posts to events, and user to user timeline posts from the newsfeed.

✔ How can I hide YouTube videos from my news feeds?

FB-Purity.net, has a built in filter for hiding YouTube videos. Its under the "Newsfeed Filters" / "Video Stories" section of the FBP options screen.

✔ Why are YouTube videos or twitter posts or some other type of posts being hidden from my timeline / newsfeed?

If you have the hide "Apps & Games" option ticked (under the "Timeline Options" heading), it will hide any posts created by Facebook apps, so if your post was "via Twitter" or "via Youtube" or via some other app that signifies it was posted by a Facebook app, and that will cause it to be hidden on the Timeline (aka your profile page). FBP does not however hide your own app posts in the Newsfeed (this is a separate page to the Timeline though some people get them mixed up), no matter what setting you have chosen. Facebook has an algorithm to determine whether something you post yourself shows up in the Newsfeed or not, you can test this by disabling FBP and seeing if your post is showing in the newsfeed or not. If its not there when FBP is disabled, then its clearly not FBP hiding it.

✔ How can I hide the "Similar to" / "Related Articles" and "More from" boxes that pop up after I like a post from a "Fan Page" in the newsfeed

If you have FB-Purity.net's Hide Sponsored Box option ticked, along with the ads, FBP will also hide those popup boxes.

✔ Can I hide the "Pages Feed", "Games Feed", "Likes Pages" or the "App Center", or any of the other Links in the left hand column?

Yes you can, FBP has built in options for hiding most of these links. Look for the "Hide Links in Left Column" section of the FBP options screen.

✔ Can I hide the Recommended Games box in the right hand column?

Yes, ticking the "Hide Game / App Requests" option under the Hide Links in Right Hand Column heading, should also hide the Recommended Games box. Its also worth opening the chat sidebar options, by clicking the cogwheel icon at the bottom of the chat sidebar on the right hand side of your facebook page and turning on the "Hide Games" option there, as that should help hiding games in the right hand column too.

✔ Can I hide the "Add friends to see more stories" box at the bottom of the newsfeed?

You could hide it with Custom CSS if you can figure it out, though the code for these types of boxes tends to change quite regularly, also once its hidden with CSS you would in future be confused as to why no more posts are loading if the box is there but hidden, and you would most likely blame FBP for it. The best solution seems to to be just refresh the page, as it should, in theory, go away after refreshing the page.

✔ Can I hide the seasonal/promotional image /greeting in the status update box / daily greeting in the newsfeed?

Tick the "Hide Nagging Questions" option located under the "Timeline Options" heading on the FBP options screen, and as well as hiding the nagging questions, it should also hide this.


★★★ Terms and Conditions

"Facebook" is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. Our website and browser extensions are neither endorsed by or affiliated with Facebook.

Use FB-Purity.net at your own risk, it comes with no warranty or guarantee, neither explicit or implicit towards functionality or usability. The author shall not be held liable for any damage or loss of data caused by its use. By downloading and installing FB-Purity.net, you agree to these terms.


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