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I updated the search query on my version to reflect new side ads on Facebook. Just add:

| //div[contains(@class, 'social_ad_advert')]

To the list at the IF statement

Avg, those are really bad programming manners!
If I were XPathResult implementator, I would change the values of the constants once in a while just to get people like you screwed :P

You can change

XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE

to

6

That's all it is; a constant.

I suggest adding //div[contains(@class, 'sidebar_item sponsor')]
and possibly //div[contains(@class, 'emu_ad')]

These removed the new sidebar ads for me on the "new" Facebook.

I recommend also including

//div[contains(@class, 'profile_sidebar_ads')]

to block the sidebar ads when viewing profiles.

Hey i'm very new to this script business, and I'm a facebook user looking to get rid of the adds on my facebook. Where do I paste this script? How do I use a script? Thanks.

Works great for me. I added a few more classes and IDs.
Line 11 in the script:
var elements = document.evaluate("//div[contains(@class, 'ad_capsule')] | //div[contains(@class, 'social_ad')] | //div[@id='announce'] | //div[contains(@id, 'sponsor')] | //div[contains(@id, 'ssponsor')] | //div[contains(@class, 'invite')] | //div[contains(@id, 'gift')] | //div[contains(@id, 'sponsor')]", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);

This only works if I refresh each page. When I first load a page all the ads are there. Do I need to change the code somehow?

Lovely, thank you!

This is a great little script. Props.

FYI though, the if block is unnecessary. The for loop won't execute if the number of elements is 0, because 'i' won't be less than the number of elements even on the first iteration. So removing the if line (and bracket on the other side of the for loop) won't change the behavior of the code.

This is awesome. Makes Facebook just a tiny bit less annoying and spam-like. Thanks!

This works really well. Some of the older scripts don't work anymore, but this one removes the sponsored ads from your news feed.

Thanks!