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Quiz-b-gone: No more 'Quizzes' on your Facebook frontpage

4 Comments Thursday, April 23, 2009

I came across this amazing Greasemonkey script for Firefox today that blocks off all those pesky quizzes and 3-rd Party application updates that your friends are littering your frontpage with. No more would you have to tolerate mindless questionnaires like "Which herbivorous rodent were you in your past life?" or front-page updates that involves a contact of yours finding which movie villainess she resembles.

What this script does is it filters your front-page news items, strips them off the 3-rd Party quiz/apps nuiscense and leaves you with news items of/related to original Facebook apps (like status updates,photo uploads,event updates etc ).

Here's what you should do:

* Install Greasemonkey.
* Install "Facebook Purity". Don't worry it's a harmless javascript file. Tested and cerfied.
* Browse Facebook minus the annoyance.

Power Tip: The author of the script suggest you keep an eye on the script homepage for regular updates. I know I sure will.

* Update: It turns out, "Facebook Purity", the above mentioned blessing of a Greasemonkey script even goes as far as showing how many 'app msgs' has been blocked ! Neat, right? The blocking notification is available on the top-right corner of your FB frontpage. Here' s a screencap under my A/C:

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4 Responses to “Quiz-b-gone: No more 'Quizzes' on your Facebook frontpage”

This is what I've been looking for.

Abu Zaher Md. Faridee on 4/23/2009
bless you!

Elvis on 4/23/2009
Life saver

Jonayat on 4/30/2009
hm, helpful post. i didnt know that one can actually stop those things with another app. nice to know.

irtiza104 from bangladesh

Irtiza104 on 5/16/2009

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Ahoy, I'm Naser I Hossain, a student of Mechanical Engineering (from Bangladesh) currently studying in BUET with my fingers crossed. My serenade(!) of life includes DIY projects,hacking random pestilence, taking photographs,occasionally designing websites/pages and playing with Web 2.0 stuff to keep myself aesthetically appeased from time to time. I also listen to Jazz and Blues (like those of Bob Seger and Louis Armstrong) profusely. If my rants interest you in the least detail I'd advice you to stick around . Meanwhile, to stay updated subscribe to my blog feed. For those interested in a part passionate web-designer part freelance hacker, consider taking a look at my incomplete resumé ;)