Kill The Facebook Ads
July 3, 2008 – 10:19 pmStop looking at those sketchy ads on Facebook. They’re not going to help you find a wife (or a husband). They are going to tempt you.
Flee from sexual immorality. - 1 Cor 6:18
How? Block them all.
0. You need Firefox. Get it here.
1. Go here and install Greasemonkey by clicking the green “Add To Firefox” button. It will let you install tiny little scripts to modify webpages. Restart Firefox.
2. Go here and click the black “Install This Script” box on the top right.
EDIT: That script adds an annoying “+” to all your pictures. Use my version of it here.
EDIT 2: Kill Xanga ads too: Here’s a script that should work reasonably well.
Should take you less than 3 minutes.
-Ben
8 Responses to “Kill The Facebook Ads”
i love you ben. forever.
By john sullivan on Jul 4, 2008
but not because of what you do. for who you are.
By john sullivan on Jul 4, 2008
is there some way i can do this for xanga ads too?
By john sullivan on Jul 4, 2008
Here’s a script I just hacked together for Xanga. It’s mostly just trial-and-error. It removes ads from your xanga and ray’s old xanga, which I believe means it works on most xanga configurations? There’s a chance that it breaks things that I haven’t tested it with. No “formal validation” or anything :-). Sorry.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29624
-Ben
By Ben on Jul 4, 2008
Don’t even know what you were talking about, I don’t use facebook.
By David on Jul 4, 2008
thanks, ben.
By walt on Jul 4, 2008
I’m curious as to why those are the ads that are targeting you… mine are all about system administrator positions and such — maybe some experimentation with the “Interests” field is in order?
By Chris Leary on Jul 5, 2008
They’re picking up on our “Religious Views: Christian” and our “Relationship Status: Single” and giving us dating websites with “hot Christian singles”, etc. (and the corresponding pictures, of course)
By Ben on Jul 5, 2008