unwanted advertisement facebook ,how to block?

[Homer]

[JK]

Add Block Plus addon?

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You really can't because revenue is created for the facebook people too put the adds on the website, so thats why there's so many.

[Facebookuser103]

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could browse your FaceBook or MySpace without all of the ads and clutter? Personally, I don’t mind text ads, but I can’t stand those annoying animated flash banner ads that takes longer to load than the rest of the page!!! Why wait an extra few seconds on every page for ads to load up if you’re not going to click on them.

I have found that FaceBook is not quite as terrible as MySpace, where I can barely see anything on my profile page with the header ad, the text ad, the Featured Profile ad, and the footer ad! Luckily, there’s a great tool that you can use that’s part of FireFox to stop all of those annoying ads.

GreaseMonkey, if you’ve never heard of it, is a add-on for FireFox that allows you to manipulate the way a web page is displayed by using small pieces of JavaScript code. So, for example, you can replace buttons, add items to a web page, or add completely new functionality to a web page. To install GreaseMonkey, you’ll need FireFox.

Once you have installed GreaseMonkey, you’ll see it under Tools and also a small monkey face icon in the bottom status bar.



Make sure the Enabled menu option is checked. Now go to the script resource web site at http://userscripts.org/ to install the FaceBook and MySpace scripts. Simply click on the Install Script button at the top right and wait for a minute or so while it installs. You won’t receive a message acknowledging that the script was installed, but you can check by choosing Manage User Scripts from the Tools – GreaseMonkey menu item. If it’s listed there, that means it’s installed.



For me it’s done wonders! Here’s what my MySpace profile looks like without the ad removing script:



There are three huge ads in this screen shot and there’s another one that’s a little lower, but not shown here. Once I installed the script, now my profile page looks like this:



Far better than what it was like before! Same thing applies to FaceBook, though I really don’t mind FaceBook’s ads since there really is only one and it’s off to the side.



There are many more ad blocking scripts that you could install, such as for eBay, Amazon, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Digg, GMail, Mininova, Anandtech, Rapidshare, Photobucket, IMDB, etc, etc. These will make your browsing much cleaner and much faster!

If you want to block ads while browsing any web site, you can install a FireFox add-on called AdBlock Plus, which blocks most advertisements on the Internet automatically. If something is not blocked, you can right-click on an image and tell it to block that ad manually!

If you want to block text ads from Vibrant Media, AdBrite, Kontera, LinkWorth and EchoTopic use this GreaseMonkey script called Disable Text Ads. Using these four to five add-ons and scripts, your web browsing experience should be ad free!

If you liked this Greasemonkey script, make sure to check out my other post on 25 Greasemonkey scripts you don’t want to miss!

Any questions, post a comment!

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