No offense, but seriously, I don’t give a damn about “When will you die”, “How good are you in bed”, “Are You Clinically Insane” or whatever quiz you taken, but please leave my facebook newsfeed alone? please? *roars*
I noticed this wave of ’spam-quiz’ appeared right after facebook did the facelift, and my main page basically is covered by those spam quiz. It’s one hella annoying, can I mark those quiz as spam? and it goes directly into a spam box, and maybe one day when I’m interested, I could just go in and see when will you die.
You can actually chose not to publish those quiz you’ve taken, but I guess that defeats the purpose of taking the quiz huh? You gotta publish them to the whole network of friends of yours to see when will you die or how good you are onna bed.
I tried to hide those quiz-news, but it totally hide all the news from the particular friends, so…you choose: Either live with the spam-quiz or hide 50% of your friends who are so keen to take those quiz.
Or…with a little help from GreaseMonkey.
This greasemonkey script removes all messages posted by applications to your homepage. It gets rid of messages about quizes etc, basically all messages from any applications created by external developers. Just leaving messages from the original facebook apps such as status updates, wall posts, links, notes, photos, etc behind
Steps:
1. You have to be a Firefox user in order to makes this thing work. If you are not, get it here.2. Install GreaseMonkey addon to your Firefox
3. Click here to Install the Facebook Purity GreaseMonkey script
Step 4 by me. Go have fun with your new facelift of the newly facelifted Facebook
As for the facelift, changes is good (look at the dying friendster), but …
Why did Facebook take away so many of the options that users loved? That’s easy–they want you to focus on your home page’s main “stream,” because, um… it’ll remind you of Twitter’s singular stream of info? As of last month, Twitter was getting 54 million monthly visits, which sounds impressive, except that this genius thing you invented was getting almost almost 1.2 billion visits–or, in other words, was still about 20 times as popular as the nascent challenger. – Huffingtonpost.com
Anyway, it’s always not easy to please 150m users 
March 21st, 2009 at 12:13 am
Nice Site layout for your blog. I am looking forward to reading more from you.
Tom Humes
March 21st, 2009 at 3:16 am
That’s a GREAT fix for me, with all those spam gone it save energy while loading the page, indirectly contributing to make the world a better place!
Muahahahhaa
March 21st, 2009 at 11:14 am
i hate those quizzes!!!!! #@$%^&*(&^%$#@$%^&*(
March 21st, 2009 at 3:48 pm
agree with you. those stupid quiz fill almost all of my news feed and eating all my bandwidth just to load the page!
March 21st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Gosh, i think you mean me….i took them because i was too bored…
March 24th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Wonderful !
Works like a charm. Those quiz results are pure spam. Glad to be rid of them.
If I take a brief look at the code in the script (I’m not experienced with greasemonkey scripts), I can see it clears all apps posting on the homepage.
Would there be a way to limit it to feedback from certain apps ? It’s that one particular quiz app that really bothers me. The rest I’d like to add to a list on a case per case basis.
How hard would it be to add that functionality to the script ? Any idea ?
Anyway thanks for posting it !
Cheers,
Wouter
March 24th, 2009 at 1:55 am
oh my god you’re totally right
will facebook propose anything to stop these annoying feeds? why did they let that happen?
i also have problems with friends sending me cocktails on my wall page, i can’t do anything except deleting those feeds three times a day (ok now i deleted the friend in question)
what the fuck is wrong with all those guys wanting to know which character from gossip girls they are?!
March 24th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I have firefox 2.0 run on linux and I went through all the steps. Once by myself, Once with computer person one, and once with computer two. Ideas?
March 24th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I meant to say it doesn’t work. I have the little monkey and he is smiling and bright but I still have all the quiz spam.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Wouter: I tried changing the line
if(footernodes[i].innerHTML.match('facebook\.com\/apps\/')) {to
if(footernodes[i].innerHTML.match('Take this Quiz')) {and it only removes the quiz. Hope it helps.
D: Try update to the latest version of Firefox?
March 26th, 2009 at 12:05 am
thanks for the help. 고맙습니다 ^^
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June 5th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
thanks for the fix bro