FB Mobile - Clean my feeds

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2023-11-14T14:11:43Z

Removes Sponsored and Suggested posts from Facebook mobile chromium/react version

FB Mobile - Clean my feeds (UserScript) (EOL)

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⚠️ End of Life

Due to the bloat, compatibility issues with Userscript managers and their instability on Mobile browsers, I've ported this userscript to a standalone Browser Extension ensuring stability, easy installation and additional PWA capabilities. So while this userscript works, I will not be maintaining it anymore.

Please refer to the Browser extension repo to install it from your preferred Extension Store (Available in both Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Addon Store for Firefox): FB Mobile - Clean my feeds (Browser Extension)

Hides Suggested and Unwanted posts from Facebook Mobile feed. Get a clean Newsfeeds with posts only from your friends, pages and groups you follow.

⚠️ Works on Android and IOS only

Removes

[x] Suggested: Removes un-needed algorithm suggested posts

[x] Sponsored: Removes annoying ads

[x] Reels: Removes annoying short videos

[x] People You May Know: Removes suggested friends

[x] Uncategorized: Removes suggested pages with join/follow link

You can now turn on/off filters from the Settings page. Look for the gear icon "⚙️" in the top right corner.

We have finally reached v1.00

This means that the script has become how I intended it to be. There will be no more feature updates. Just bug fixes and performance improvements upon user requests.

Special thanks to Ethan Richardson for your huge contribution.

Why stop it here?

This version of FB is really hard to work on. There are some issues like jittering and scroll jumps that I have not found any way to fix. You can refer to the Known Issues section below for more info.

What's next?

I will instead work on my FB mobile - Clean my feeds Helper (Browser extension) to port Desktop version of FB onto mobile. Which has better UI/UX, better performance and loads media files in original size. Install any FB Cleaner Desktop script/extension of your choice alongside it to block unwanted posts. But as of right now, not all of FB desktop pages are responsive and its going to be the extension's task to port them.

Though development is/will be slow as I'm struggling with my Career. Feel free to visit or contribute to it.

How to use

1. Install Quetta Browser Android or IOS

2. Launch Quetta Browser then Install Tampermonkey or ScriptCat extension from Chrome Web Store.

3. (Optional) Install uBlock Origin extension.

Not required for this script but will improve your overall browsing experience by a mile.

4. Head over to this link and Press Install and Confirm installation: GreasyFork

5. Browse https://m.facebook.com/ without all the trash.

(Optional and unstable) Install it as an app:

1. Open https://m.facebook.com/

2. Tap on the Quetta Browser 3 dot menu

3. Tap on Add to Homescreen

4. Set your preferred Label and tap on Add

5. Find it in your Android Home screen

Browser/Extension Alternatives:

Please refer to this link to find other alternatives if my suggested combination doesn't work for you: https://github.com/KudoAI/googlegpt#-compatibility

Known issues

Facebook has an enhanced Mobile version of facebook which only works on Chromium browsers. The browsing experience is not as good as the App you are used to. It shows low quality photos and videos. But this is all we got that we can inject a script into.

ℹ️ So keep the original App installed and use it only for leisure browsing.

Other issues

Jitters when scrolling

You actually scroll faster than you think. So new posts get added pretty frequently. While the execution of the script isn't slow, shrinking of unwanted posts causes constant Page height shifts. You can find learn more about it inside the script.

Blank Posts when coming back to NewsFeed

Firefox based browsers not supported

The enhanced version of m.facebook only loads on Chromium browsers. Nothing I can do about it for now.

Api rate limit ⚠️Please scroll slowly

After a while they keep pushing hundreds of Suggested posts in a row. As you keep scrolling faster than usual, it is possible to hit Api rate limit. Or in general term: they put a timer between each post requests and you asked for posts before the timer ended

Doesn't work when coming back after a break

Instead of doing the "Pull down to refresh", press the 3 dot menu and press Refresh there.

⭐ If you like this project a Star would be nice.

⭐ You can request for new filters or submit issues here: Github/issues

⭐ Want to contribute? Refer to the Contribution page.

⭐ Buy me a coffee

For PC browsers, you can try these instead:

https://github.com/zbluebugz/facebook-clean-my-feeds

https://www.fbpurity.com

They are not affiliated or associated with me in any way.