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Hide Facebook News feed entries which are random posts from friends' liked pages. They are matched by looking for the 'Like Page' button within a news feed entry. Instructions for adding user scripts to Chrome here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5258989/manually-adding-a-userscript-to-google-chrome or for Firefox use Greasemonkey. It's prob…
// ==UserScript==
// @name Hide Facebook 'Like' News
// @namespace uk.me.amoss
// @include /https?://www.facebook.com/.*/
// @version 1
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
// Configurable
var indicateInsteadOfHiding = false;
var newsItemAddedObserver = null;
window.onload = function() {
if( newsItemAddedObserver !== null ) {
return;
}
var newsDivSelection = document.evaluate('//div[starts-with(@id, "topnews_main_stream")]', document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
if( newsDivSelection.snapshotLength === 0 ) {
console.log('No news stream div found.');
} else if( newsDivSelection.snapshotLength > 1 ) {
console.log('Multiple news stream divs found.');
} else {
newsItemAddedObserver = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
mutations.forEach(function(mutation) {
for( var i = 0; i < mutation.addedNodes.length; i++ ) {
var addedNode = mutation.addedNodes[i];
if( addedNode.id.indexOf('jsonp') > -1 ) {
hideMatchingDivs(addedNode);
}
}
});
});
newsItemAddedObserver.observe(newsDivSelection.snapshotItem(0), { subtree: true, childList: true });
hideMatchingDivs(document);
}
function hideMatchingDivs(element) {
var spamDivs = document.evaluate('//div[contains(@id, "jsonp") and .//button[contains(text(), "Like Page")]]', element, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
console.log('Detected ' + spamDivs.snapshotLength + ' matching divs.');
for( var i = 0; i < spamDivs.snapshotLength; i++ ) {
if( indicateInsteadOfHiding ) {
spamDivs.snapshotItem(i).style.border = '3px solid red';
} else {
spamDivs.snapshotItem(i).style.display = 'none';
}
}
}
};
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