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Hey oh great developer!

I was wondering if there is any plan or current work to add an option to this script to remove the annoying quiz, ad and whatnot news feed spam. Every time I go to my front page I am now greeted with countless useless posts about which friends character my friends are (humorous ... NO) or what fruit they are and you get the picture!

Please, please do something to remove this nonsense, it is ruining my comfy web2 social networking experience.

Love the script, will always love it.
Take care and thanks for reading.

Thanks for your reply ... it does appear facebook has no intention of doing anything about the awful overloading of the front page with crap ... I read somewhere that advertisers on facebook are getting up to 40% more clicks now they have the new interface. If that is true, it is very likely that facebook will stick to this interface and system regardless of the user's distaste.

Once again, thanks for the best FB script available.

Hi again.
I have noticed that facebook's solution to the irritation is having to click "Hide such and such" for every annoying quiz, app and what not.
Maybe if you did decide to implement a feature to block these you could have the script detect when there is a "Hide such and such" other than the "Hide user" that is present in all news feed posts.

It is just a suggestion, and I hope you understood me :)
Thanks for your time.

Thanks very much for your reply.
I hope you find a way ... pretty sure you will, you seem to know facebook's inner workings quite well.
Take care.

@Vaughan Chandler
If the apps are in your feed then they will also be in your filters on the left. This code removes all apps from the feed, but I'm sure you can make it only remove quizzes.

function blockApp(appId) {
    var xmlhttp =  new XMLHttpRequest();
    xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://www.facebook.com/ajax/feed/filter_action.php", true);
    var params = "value="+appId+"&action=unfollow&filter_key=app_"+appId+"&post_form_id_source=AsyncRequest&post_form_id="+$('post_form_id').value+"&nectar_impid="+unsafeWindow.env_get("nectar_last_impression_id")+'&nectar_navimpid='+unsafeWindow.Env["nectar_last_impression_id"];
    xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
    xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
    xmlhttp.send(params);
}

var apps = document.evaluate('//div[contains(@class, "UIFilterList_Item")]/a[contains(@href, "?filter=app_")]', document, null, 6, null), app, i=0;
while(app=apps.snapshotItem(i++)) if(!/(2361831622|2344061033|2347471856|2392950137|2309869772|2305272732)/.test(app.href)) {
    blockApp(appId=app.href.split('app_')[1]);
    app.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(app.parentNode);
  }

Glad you like the code. Been using it in my script for awhile and I figure the more people it benefits the better. Yeah it blocks the apps permanently, but you can remove them from the block list by clicking "Edit Options" at the bottom of the feed and selecting the Applications tab.
2361831622 is the id for groups and I think 2344061033 is for events.

Vaughan Chan... wrote:
sizzlemctwizzle, the quizzes are being blocked? When I tried the code I don't think they were being blocked for me... Guess I'll give it another look.