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

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: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:39:57 +0000

You may find instructions on how to block facebook ads using the add-on Adblock Plus in Firefox at http://www.berlineradler.de/index.php?topic=2042.0

contra ads

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!

By: akishore

akishore — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:09:33 +0000

Carolina, if you want to block entire web pages, not just advertisements, you need to get some kind of parental control software. Read my previous post here on how to block Internet websites using free software.

By: snarfy23

snarfy23 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:51:40 +0000

@carolina: Unplug your network cable ^_^

By: carolina

carolina — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:21:12 +0000

how can i block Facebook, Myspace, and adult web pages ?

By: awjohnso1

awjohnso1 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:43:48 +0000

The ad blocker plus worked great for facebook. Thank you very much. Their ads were a little annoying. You were a big help.

By: C.M. F

C.M. F — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:18:02 +0000

How do you unblock yourself from someone else’s facebook profile? Is that possible?

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:21:25 +0000

Glenn, there is a GreaseMonkey script to disable text ads.

By: glenn

glenn — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:53:10 +0000

I already use Adblock and NoScript, so I don’t see banner ads and such. Will this block “Sponsored” text ads? That’s what I’m trying to stop.

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:35:53 +0000

Aseem, thank you very much for this article. I was about ready to deactivate my Facebook account because of the disgusting ads I was getting. Now I am add free, thanks to this.

I just made a blog post about this with a link to your page here.

Thanks again.