What is Facebook Purity?
Facebook Purity is a Greasemonkey script that helps you to take control of the News Feeds on your Facebook home page. It does this by filtering out the application spam, such as quizzes etc, and also the messages such as “x became a fan of y”, “x joined group y”, “x became [...]
I just released v2.2a of the facebook purity greasemonkey script for firefox, google chrome, opera, and safari.
In this release: I rewrote the filter system. I also updated the “App” filter so it now treats “photos” that have been posted to the feed by an application as application spam and hides them via the “App” filter. [...]
I noticed a bug in Facebook today, a lot of text on the home/live stream is being made bold, when it shouldnt be. This was affecting the script, and means the script was not working 100% correctly. This release fixes that issue.
Also new in this release, ive added the Facebook for Android application to the [...]
I just read about the flickr app garden that was released quite recently and have created a page there, for my flickr “apps”. You can go to my flickr apps page here: http://bit.ly/flickrapps. If you like my flickr apps, please add the page as a favourite. thanks!
FB Purity Script updated 2nd November 2009
Facebook Purity v2.1 Release Notes
reset show/hide mode to default when user changes facebook filter
added workaround for facebook still showing apps that you have “blocked”, script now “hides” app as well as blocking it, when you click the “block app” link
fixed bug with whitelisted apps being intercepted by the “show [...]
Announcing the release of v2.0 of the facebook purity script.
I released a new version of my Facebook Purity greasemonkey script today (28th October 2009). It now has a new filter that blocks messages telling you “x became friends with y”, “x is attending an event”, “x joined a group” and “x became a fan of y” it only hides them, you can easily click [...]
new release of the facebook purity greasemonkey script, for cleaning up your facebook homepage:
1.8e 26th Oct 2009 script now hides certain apps that were getting past the filter, and should also now be restricted to running on the homepage, also the blocked app message counter should work better now.
get it here: http://bit.ly/fbpure
P.S the “block app” [...]
I’ve updated the facebook purity script to work with the latest code change at facebook, you can get the updated version here: http://bit.ly/fbpure
N.B the script seems to be working fine now, but FB seem to be caching old data, as after blocking applications using the new “block app” function, the apps come back again if [...]
Previously the Facebook Purity script would just hide the 3rd party application messages from your facebook homepage. Since reading that applications added by your friends can access your personal information even if you havent installed the app I decided to step up the protection FB Purity provides, it now adds a “Block App” link next [...]
