thank god, there is humanity left in this world

+1

Alleluia ! +1

Any chance of making this into a FF addon? I haven’t taken the plunge w/ GreaseMonkey yet… but would love to block all these BS quizzes!!

[...] quizzes, but the “Hide” function is temporary relief, at best. One intrepid scripter rewrote a Facebook-purging Greasemonkey script to specialize in quiz blocking, leaving things you might actually care about behind. Works wherever [...]

What apps does it block?
I installed it, and my FB page currently has several quizzes from my friends, but NONE of them were blocked.

THANK YOU! I was wondering how many more dozens of quizzes I had left to block.

Awesome!

Is there any chance to block useless groups notifications too?

In Italy is in use to join a lot of trivial groups, like
“for everybody who has seen McGyver during his/her childhood, join in!”
(with all the respect to McGyver, of course)

Bless you Bless you Bless you…now if I could just block those stupid trinkets everyone sends (gifts, hugs, green things, whatever – I ignore them all!)

I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that you’re the best human ever.

Brian: Greasemonkey is a Firefox addon, which, in itself does nothing with out a script like this one.

No joke, this SINGLE script might make me swap from Opera to Firefox.

Actually I spoke too fast, have just read the script. Thanks for the cross browser compatibility.

How do I make this work? I’m computer dumb.

I just read the release notes…

You need FireFox 3 and Greasemonkey to make it work

Jacob: if you have FireFox 3 installed, you will also need a program called Greasemonkey (it is installed onto Firefox).

Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 to get it.

If this works, you deserve the Man of the Year award for humanitarian aid.

Oh, yay. Yay. YAY! Seriously. Best script evah.

I don’t know you but you’re my new best friend.

[...] quizzes, but the “Hide” function is temporary relief, at best. One intrepid scripter rewrote a Facebook-purging Greasemonkey script to specialize in quiz blocking, leaving things you might actually care about behind. Works wherever [...]

@Brian @Robbie

It’s better as a greasemonkey/userscript than as a Firefox extension — it’s now cross-browser compatible with anything that supports that (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc.).

Thanks Daniel! You made my day. Tc, -kag

I’m so happy I’m almost weeping. Thank you.

Commenting before I’ve even had a cup of coffee to tell you this is the best day ever. Thank you.

Thank u , Thank u, Thank u
I can’t tell u how much I suffered from those silly quizes, thank u so much

You’re my hero.

I love you, I love you, I love you!
I was so tired of pressing ‘hide’! I was seriously considering just hiding everyone, but now you’ve saved me!

Ahhh you’re awesome!

“FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESSOR!”
“Yes,” I said.
“For the love of God!”

[...] leave a comment » A Greasemonkey script for your Facebook pleasure: removing all those damn Quiz updates. [...]

You, sir, are a king.

Oh, God, I think I love you.

Bloquea los pesados tests de tus amigos en Facebook…

Todos tenemos amigos en Facebook que se dedican a hacer tests sobre cosas tan interesantes como "qué barrio de Hong Kong te define mejor?" o "cuál es tu personaje favorito de Gossip Girl?", pues con este addon para Firefox y Greas…

I’d been thinking about writing one of these for a while

THANK YOU SIR!

God bless you, sir.

What is wrong with you all? Seriously! You don’t need scripts. Facebook has this option built in. When you see your status update on the bottom right (the “notifications” area), click on “See all”. Hey look, over on the right side you have the option to UNCHECK which notifications you don’t want to get.

Thank you, Nathan. In my defense, and probably a few other folks here, Facebook doesn’t make it very easy to find things like that. I’ve looked several times before and have never seen that page before. I will be preaching it from the top of my page from here on out. Thank you, Nathan, Daniel and Steeev!

@Nathan: We don’t want this crap in our news feeds… notifications don’t have anything to do with it.

[...] quizzes, but the “Hide” function is temporary relief, at best. One intrepid scripter rewrote a Facebook-purging Greasemonkey script to specialize in quiz blocking, leaving things you might actually care about behind. Works wherever [...]

Thank you good sir. You have done the internet a tremendous service this day.

I shall now play you a victorious fanfare which I composed in your honour.

BA PA DA BAAAAAAA

PS Seriously, thank you.

I think I love you.

Ummm, it works until I scroll until end of page. Then suddenly all quizzes pop up again.. Any way to fix that?

Actually, it’s not till I scroll until end of page, it’s after some time. I thought delay was cos of my computer being laggy

im about to cry from the sheer happiness this has brought me.

[...] has wroten Facebook Purity Greasemonkey script for cleaning up Facebook from quiz and trivia Daniel has edited it not to block some applications as well. You need to have Greasemonkey Firefox add-on [...]

Yes!! Thank You! I have one question though… “which 5 songs totally changed your life?!”

the second facebook allowed external apps is the day it went shitty. man, it’s nice to have awesome people like you out there.

You are a god!! Love this script, it works for most of them, not only to block those bloody awful quiz notifications, but also to brush up on long forgotten Javascript techniques!! Thank You!

oh god thank you.

I’ve already installed it and it works like a charm. I disabled it for a sec just to check and I was instantly bombarded with a load of crappy quiz results. My only concern is, if I install this, I won’t ever find out

“what sandal am I?”
http://www.facebook.com/apps/directory.php#/apps/application.php?id=6116158814&ref=appd

and I’ve always wanted to know.

I wonder how I tell it’s working. If I turn off tree falling notification in a forest, do trees still fall?

Thank you!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

The “Hide Function” (that hidden button to the right of the quiz title) lets you block the whole app from putting stuff on your news feed, works for me. =]

You are the best person in the history of ever.

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so is there any way of making this work on IE? or just Firefox? Dont have firefox at work and cant install it

Due to their awesome FB quiz-killer, which of the following best describes Daniel and Steeev?

a). Men of the Year
b). Bombtastic
c). Humanity savers
d). All around asskickers

Take the quiz and find out!

…Just kidding.

Seriously. Thank. You.

awesome! thanks man…
@ nathan : you can use firefox portable…

Could someone please teach me what to do after I install greasemonkey? I suck at everything with computers so I am super lost…

Thank you in advance

THANK YOU!

I’ve been resorting to hide all of them…

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

My thank yous thank you.

You’ve made my night. Thank you!

Sara-
My husband helped me. After you’ve installed Greasemonkey, close your browser, then re-open. Go back to this page, then click the link “here’s the link.” If you see a buncha code, click the bar at the top of the page to remove the FB frame. It should automatically load at that point– the rest is self-explanatory, I think? That frame caused problems for me.

[...] quizzes, but the “Hide” duty is temporary relief, at best. One intrepid scripter rewrote a Facebook-purging Greasemonkey script to change in examine blocking, leaving things you strength actually tending most behind. Works [...]

Merci Beaucoup!

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I couldn’t resist:

http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/9_T37XS/Are-you-a-gay-potato

Especially now that I ignore it myself.

Seriously, thank you for making this. It makes me less likely to quite facebook, which has been becoming less and useful with all the noise.

WoooooooW!! thanks a lot

[...] da tale Daniel, lo script funziona praticamente ovunque sia possibile installare Firefox insieme [...]

you sir, are a saint among men

[...] da tale Daniel, lo script funziona praticamente ovunque sia possibile installare Firefox insieme all’estensione [...]

Nooooo! I don’t want to block *all* applications, which facebook purity does, just the quizzes.

And I appear to have come to late to the party.

[...] Hand blocken zu müssen, soll eine Erweiterung für Safari, Firefox und Opera helfen: Laut Daniels Blog hilft Greasemonkey und das “Facebook Purity Skript“, die unnötigen Quiz Meldungen [...]

Dammit, I installed this yesterday and loved it, but I redid my Firefox and now I can’t get it.

The other guys script is just way too intrusive and blocks a lot more then I want. What a jerk.

The original script creator is an idiot for not allowing this.

Anyone have a mirror of Dan’s modded script?? Purity is def not nearly as nice as this one!!

Yes, can someone post the modded script somewhere?

The original version of the script caused FB to hide ALL comments to EVERY post & hid the ability to like/unlike a post. I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal. Not rec’d.

[...] da tale Daniel, lo script funziona praticamente ovunque sia possibile installare Firefox insieme [...]

[...] repetition is taken away though, by installing an addon to Firefox, Safari or Opera: according to Daniels blog the addon Greasemonkey and the Facebook Purity Script will filter out the quiz messages so that [...]

Here are some of my postings from sitonmyfacebook….and many thanks for the solution

April 22 2009
All hail the bogus catechism to catch the attention of the masses, who, sans sense, are captive to a superficiality of response based on degraded attentional abilities and the constant need for superficial familiarity and a totally false sense of belonging. The next quiz will either be – “What intestinal parasite was I inside a cow?” or “Which part of of the mindless mob am I?”

April 19 2009
With the retail ubiquity of quiz themes, denuded of history and context we could go crazy, and given the unlimited capacity for self-dumbing, we could even make some money! What type of body odour are you quiz? Which bimbo cleavage are you quiz? What type of chromosomal abnormality did you really want to be quiz? That’s only for starters….more to come.

‘April 18 2009
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand and online quizzes are the perfect nutrient for docile consumers with dumb leisure appetites. I need some help in strip-mining facebook culture – with the apogee of this species of dumbness being the online quiz, why not write some and cash in on the narcissistic devaluation of self-knowledge.

April 16 2009
Take another online quiz -Is this the online globalisation of clevering down? – nothing wrong with lowest common denominator wallpaper – take the “what sexually transmitted disease are you quiz?” – maybe I’ve just got a lower intolerance quotient to this fatuous and asinine opiate of the masses – maybe I should take the “which inane quiz are you” quiz? – Let them eat quiz!

http://drop.io/6nowppv

Here’s the modified script, in flagrant disregard for the original creators wishes.

[...] da tale Daniel, lo script funziona praticamente ovunque sia possibile installare Firefox insieme all’estensione [...]

[...] amici è rivolta un’estensione per il componente Greasemonkey. Per l’installazione di Facebook Purity assicuratevi di avere il componente Greasemonkey installato e successivamente recatevi a questo [...]

Argh I installed this on my work computer, and now I get home to find it’s been removed? I hate it when authors can’t handle that their works can be improved! Is there anywhere I can get this?

Ottimo davvero!! Grazie!

Damnit i formatted and needed the script again, is there any update?

5 posts up the link by anonyous coward has been flagged and removed as well

What a tool.

I reinstalled and needed to put it back on. CRAP.

Gotta hate it when someone is jealous of all the good reps this script brought over his original.

Kinda like a sledgehammer when all I want is a simple fix.

works out of the box! congratulations!

Can anyone send the modified script to miwsher@gmail.com ?

I have it installed. If you guys tell me where I can find it in my folder structure, I can repost it.

[...] nome del plugin per Firefox che vi permetterà di nascondere tutti i quiz dei vostri amici si chiama Facebook Purity. Una volta installata l’applicazione, si attiverà in automatico, indirizzandovi alla pagina di [...]

Hey, I thought you should know your script is broken. It now blocks everything, quizzes or no.

Facebook changed the way it posts news stories last night (June 23), so now the script doesn’t work anymore… Is there any possibility of an updated release?

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[...] nome del plugin per Firefox che vi permetterà di nascondere tutti i quiz dei vostri amici si chiama Facebook Purity. Una volta installata l’applicazione, si attiverà in automatico, indirizzandovi alla pagina di [...]

[...] nome del plugin per Firefox che vi permetterà di nascondere tutti i quiz dei vostri amici si chiama Facebook Purity. Una volta installata l’applicazione, si attiverà in automatico, indirizzandovi alla pagina di [...]

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Would love to have the modified script if anyone can email it to me at todd at colporteurbooks dot com.

[...] ideata un’estensione per il componente Greasemonkey. Per la completa installazione di Facebook Purity verificate che abbiate installato il componente Greasemonkey e poi andate a questo indirizzo per [...]

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