Comments on: How to block/remove advertisements from FaceBook and MySpace

By: Verushka

Verushka — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:26:38 +0000

Concerning my myspace webpage, I synced my myspace webpage to my facebook webpage. Now on top of my myspace webpage there is a large banner ad saying that I synced my myspace account to my facebook account. I unsynced my myspace account to my facebook by going into my account, sync. It still is showing the large banner ad on the top about me syncing my pages on Aug. 31. Please do you know how to remove this banner ad information. I’ve already activated ad blocker and also grease monkey and my space add image link2.

Thanks,

The code is something like this when I highlight the box.

“synced their Myspace account to Facebook”3:49 PM Aug 31

By: Ads

Ads — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:59:43 +0000

Ad Muncher is the best ad blocker out there !

By: Weasel

Weasel — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:47:53 +0000

From what I’ve noticed, Facebook ads use different DOM object names depending on what FB page you are viewing.. For instance, the right-hand ads on your Wall will be differently named objects from the right-hand ads on your Groups & Pages page.. Have to find out all of the object names and block them accordingly..

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:54:47 +0000

I’ve used some of the scripts mentioned here, but the ads still show up on the right hand side in Facebook. What am I doing wrong?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:37:34 +0000

If you’re having issues with the above scripts mentioned in the posts, it might be because they have not been updated.

Here is a working script for greasemonkey, which removes all ads from Facebook:

userscripts.org/scripts/show/78096

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:56:10 +0000

Want to get rid of advertisements on Facebook?

There’s a new, up to date greasemonkey script what will set the visibility of all ad blocks on Facebook pages to ‘hidden’.

That way you browse Facebook “ad-free”.

userscripts.org/scripts/show/78096

facebook.com/group.php?gid=121779507861362&v=info

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:16:06 +0000

I added Greasemonkey and I still have adds. Whats going on?! It doesn’t work if I refresh the page or if I log out then, log in again. Please help. Ads are slowing my comp waaaaaay down.

By: BARRRY

BARRRY — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:38:03 +0000

Hello i tried to install greasemonkey and no matter where i try to download it from even doing a google search, but i get this message every time i try to download… please can anyone help, i am a novice computer user so please try and explain as easily as you can thanks BARRY.

Firefox could not install the file at

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/748/addon-748-latest.xpi?src=addondetail

because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption)
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By: Zed

Zed — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:27:43 +0000

That worked really well, took a few seconds to install and means that facebook is now usable on a netbook!

By: facehatebook

facehatebook — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:33 +0000

Thanks, it works like a charm for facebook.

By: Derrick S.

Derrick S. — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:57:11 +0000

To Weasel:

Well that was just dandy, it disabled the ads on the side, but it crippled flash too! Is there any way to get the ads gone, but not cripple flash?

By: Weasel

Weasel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:29:29 +0000

I just discovered another way to block Facebook ads in IE! Make a file called “usercontent.css” and put it somewhere safe (such as My Documents).. Next, edit the file (using a text editor) and put the following in it (minus the BEGIN/END lines, of course):

————-BEGIN What-To-Put-In-It—————–

#ssponsor, .footer_ad, .banner_ad, .social_ad, .ad_capsule, .sidebar_ads, .adcolumn, .admarket_ad, .sidebar_item.sponsor, .emu_sponsor, .home_sponsor, .UITitledBox_Title
{
display: none !important;
}

————-END What-To-Put-In-It—————–

Next, in IE go to Tools->Internet Options, and click on the “Accessibility” button. Select the “Format documents using my style sheet” checkbox, and browse to the usercontent.css file you created earlier. Click OK, OK, then Facebook ads should be hidden! They will still be pulled from the server and loaded by the browser, but the stylesheet will refuse to display them, as they are now hidden!

I imagine that this same trick can be applied in Firefox without Greasemonkey (or any Mozilla browser, for that matter) as well. Just add it to the usercontent.css file (see Google for more info on usercontent.css)

I dunno if Google Chrome has user-definable CSS, but if it does then this should work there too!

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:45:40 +0000

Is there a way of removing facebook ads on internet explorer? I’ve tried the security and restricted sites and that doesn seem to be workin.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:08:51 +0000

what about blocking facebook adverts on Google Chrome?!

By: Rene'

Rene' — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:21:06 +0000

I’m using IE on Facebook. An offensive ad popped up on my Facebook profile, so I rt clicked on the ad and copied the url and pasted it into the Restricted Sites zone of the Securities tab as instructed above, and when I refreshed the page that one particular ad was gone, but 4 more (albeit nonoffensive) popped up in its place. I would love an ad free profile page, offensive or no. What am I doing wrong.
Thank you for your help!