Discussion on Facebook Ad Killer | Userscripts.org

Updates for the "Remove All Facebook Ads" Script, replied by GDoutch @ Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:46:17 +0000

GDoutch — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:46:17 +0000

My Pleasure :) although I did have some help and advice from UserScripters!

Updates for the "Remove All Facebook Ads" Script, replied by tidalwav1 @ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:15:40 +0000

tidalwav1 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:15:40 +0000

Hello GDoutch,

I set out to update my script, "Remove All Facebook Ads" (found at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/13787), since it was badly in need of updating.

My script originally waited for the DOM to load before removing ad elements. In researching a better way to trigger element removal, I found your script, which makes use of a DOMNodeInserted listener--a much better solution!

I just wanted to say 'thank you' for providing that little tidbit!

FB slowdown?, replied by GDoutch @ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:24:43 +0000

GDoutch — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:24:43 +0000

Someone's reported that this script slows down doing things like tagging photos in facebook.

All I can say is I have no idea why this would happen or what (if) I could do about it.

So, disable it when you're doing something like tagging and re-enable it again after. It's a minor pain compared to all them friggin' ads.

Archived Comments, replied by bighaugs @ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:49:16 +0000

bighaugs — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:49:16 +0000

I thought this script was great (it performs as advertised), but it SERIOUSLY slows down the javascript (?) on certain actions in Facebook, at least for me. Tagging photos, for example, became an exercise in patience; it would take 5-6 seconds for the tagging box to appear. Often, simple text entry would also fall into an interminable lag, to the point where my OS (Vista HP) thought that Firefox had crashed.

I assumed that the problem was in my FF installation. After a completely fresh install, however, I realized (by trial-and-error) that this script was causing my problems.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:26:00 +0000

GDoutch — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:26:00 +0000

Hey,

This shouldn't really affect the facebook chat feature. I haven't seen a problem, but I don't use it much myself.

Archived Comments, replied by guitarmex @ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:45:56 +0000

guitarmex — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:45:56 +0000

Hey man, I hate to nitpick, but it really lags out the browser window when I open up my facebook chat tab and click on someone to send a message.

Archived Comments, replied by thebuddhist @ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:47:06 +0000

thebuddhist — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:47:06 +0000

w00t! F corporate amerika and their lame ads, works great in FF3.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:13:03 +0000

GDoutch — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:13:03 +0000

Updated:

// Ver 1.9
// Hide the sidebar instead of remove to prevent the layout screwing up

Archived Comments, replied by 2CollegeBums @ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:55:21 +0000

2CollegeBums — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:55:21 +0000

I love this script.
At the end of the removeSideBar function I added:
document.getElementById('right_column').setAttribute("style","margin-right:160px");
This prevents the whole right column from being shifted over 160px because the sidebar is removed.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:17:23 +0000

GDoutch — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:17:23 +0000

Actually, this one gets rid of more ads than the one @ 31080

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:03:39 +0000

GDoutch — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:03:39 +0000

This one is better:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31080

I recommend it to anyone who is thinking of installing this script.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:39:34 +0000

GDoutch — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:39:34 +0000

Ver 1.8
Switched to a single removeEmbeddedAds() function for removing all ads found by class='something to do with ads' inside every div element on the page.

This is because facebook updated their ad insertion method on the home_sidebar

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:13:26 +0000

GDoutch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:13:26 +0000

@codam That userstyle is good, but still allows news feed ads to slip through. Used in conjunction with this script kills them all. It still doesn't quite resize for all pages, but is good enough anyway.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:59:35 +0000

GDoutch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:59:35 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out codam. Never heard of userstyles before.

Archived Comments, replied by codam @ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:02:47 +0000

codam — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:02:47 +0000

@Tom Gallagher: http://userstyles.org/styles/9021.html does just that (although a lot of other stuff too which you might not want..)

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:00:14 +0000

GDoutch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:00:14 +0000

Ver 1.7

GM_addstyle was nice but leaked ads in the news feed.
Reverted to previous method that worked better.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:28 +0000

GDoutch — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:28 +0000

Simplified a great deal using GM_addstyle.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:26:17 +0000

GDoutch — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:26:17 +0000

Ver 1.6 Added an eval to take care of the error messages.
commented out the on load command as DOMNodeInserted takes care of it all!

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:55:50 +0000

GDoutch — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:55:50 +0000

Yeah I know. I don't really know how to do that at the moment.

If anyone has any code (zorlan's doesn't work for all of new.facebook.com/* ) they can post it here or make their own script based on this. I don't mind, just let me know so I can install it :)

Archived Comments, replied by Tom Gallagher @ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:12:08 +0000

Tom Gallagher — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:12:08 +0000

It would be great if you could expand the newsfeed and other items to occupy the freed up space :D

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:39 +0000

GDoutch — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:39 +0000

Yeah, I get that too. But it's definitely not 'null'. I'll look into it some more.

Archived Comments, replied by Logan Koester @ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:38:39 +0000

Logan Koester — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:38:39 +0000

I'm getting a "document.getElementById("newsfeed_wrapper") is null" error from Firebug for this script, though it seems to work fine.

Archived Comments, replied by GDoutch @ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:15 +0000

GDoutch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:15 +0000

Ver 1.5:
Added class name to catch more feed ads - expect this to grow as more come along.
Fix made for the home page sidebar sponsor removal that wasn't working too great before.
It seems that document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", removeAds, true) works after all. There were rumours of a bug, I don't know what it is.

Archived Comments, replied by Zorlan @ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:31:04 +0000

Zorlan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:31:04 +0000

I wrote a similar script, and used the following code to allow an app to take up the remaining space:

var contentNode = document.getElementById('content').childNodes[0].childNodes[0];
contentNode.style.width = "100%";
contentNode.childNodes[0].style.width = "auto";

Note: this code is only for apps.new.facebook.com, but it doesn't have any affect on the other parts of facebook as far as I've tested.

Archived Comments, replied by yanksoccer117 @ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:11:40 +0000

yanksoccer117 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:11:40 +0000

yo, you hit it on the head with document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", removeAds, true); thanks