facebook apps, quiz, ads, and spam remover

By Justin W Last update May 5, 2011 — Installed 33,557 times.

Script Summary: Removes apps, quizzes, spam, and facebook advertisements from *ALL* pages. This includes newsfeed, user profile pages, as well as application boxes on profile pages! Please direct any issues or help requests to facebookappsremover@datademons.com. This script is original -- other scripts on userscripts have begun copying it. Tested on both firefox and chrome.



Version: 3.37

  • May 5, 2011 - Whitelisted a bunch of other apps. If anyone is still using this thing.
  • May 26 - Whitelisted facebook for palm os.
  • May 21 - Some of facebook's apps are coming from apps.new.facebook.com now. Added to blacklist. Also, whitelisted photobucket.
  • May 07 - Whitelisted smart twitter.
  • Apr 15 - Facebook modified their site layout. Added support for it.
  • Apr 11 - Facebook appears to be assigning new IDs to the same programs. Whitelisted facebook for android (again).
  • Apr 09 - I'm an idiot and typod in the code.
  • Apr 09 - Whitelisted mobile web.
  • Mar 05 - Whitelisted hootsuite -- another external app for updating statuses from one place.
  • Mar 02 - Blacklisted more farmville photo albums -- I wish I were kidding.
  • Mar 01 - Whitelisted ping.fm. An external app that lets you perform status updates.
  • Feb 12 - I'm getting really sick of this farmville pile of shit. Blocked its annoying "pages".
  • Feb 08 - Removed the 'connect box' on the right hand side.
  • Feb 04 - Removed stupid Texas Hold 'Em picture stuff.
  • Jan 07 - Removed "x became a fan of "JOIN THIS GROUP AND GET FARMVILLE CASH!"" nonsense, whitelisted regular tweetdeck.
  • Jan 05 - Removed 'FarmVille Photos' from albums list. (Come on people, seriously?)
  • Dec 19 - Whitelisted loopt and tweetdeck for iphone.
  • Dec 16 - More mafiawars spam. Also removes the 'sponsored' box on the right-hand side now.
  • Dec 09 - More spam.
  • Dec 04 - Blacklisted another 'put this on your wall to win' thing.
  • Dec 02 - Blacklisted a "put this on your wall and you could win" nonsense spam.
  • Nov 30 - Blacklisted more facebook spam (I don't list those here because they don't need to be referenced more on the Internet, view the code history to see the URL.)
  • Nov 27 - Whitelisted the facebook for twitter app
  • Nov 27 - Whitelisted the facebook marketplace
  • Nov 25 - Now it removes application boxes from profile pages and facebook ads aswell.
  • Nov 20 - Blacklisted URL to an image for a spam facebook note that yaps about cheating in mafiawars or something.
  • Nov 14 - Blacklisted 360elite4free.com (facebook scam spam)
  • Nov 12 - Blacklisted 'friend.ly'.
  • Nov 11 - Added another 'hacked facebook' spam entry.
  • Nov 05 - Made blacklist/whitelist entries case insensitive.
  • Nov 04 - Blacklisted 'thebigprize.com' and 'thebizmeet.com'. The former being a marketing scam, the latter being what amounts to a facebook virus.
  • Oct 30 - Allowed facebook for blackberry.
  • Oct 30 - Allowed facebook for iphone.
  • Oct 29 - Set so status shuffle statuses ARENT removed.
  • Oct 28 - Complete rewrite, addition of whitelists -- whitelisted twitter status updates.
  • Oct 27 - Added yoville.com to regex list for blocking since its posts don't seem to reference apps.facebook.com, only yoville.com