Greasemonkey Script: Block Application Links for Facebook
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Oh two updates in the same day… week… month! I come in cycles due to my ADD, I apologize for nothing, my biorhythm index for blogging and coding must be in their up cycle because in conjunction with updating this site, and the HFB extension, I also built a GreaseMonkey script to add links to friend’s application installs on you Facebook News Feed to block the application permanently.
I was getting tired of my news feed being dominated by application installs by my friends, they often outnumbered other news stories which are of actual interest. I also have very little interest in applications, I feel they are for the most part anti-social and are undermining the spirit of Facebook. There are exceptions and this is why I don’t just automatically block all the applications but for the vast majority I have no interest in seeing anything about them.
I found that blocking an application removes all the stories about it from the news feed and you don’t get any articles in your notification page bugging you with invites either, I was happier than a pig in sh*t! But the process to block an application is annoying. You have to click the app title, then click the block application, then confirm you want to block, then go back to the news feed. So far I’ve been able to cut it down to clicking the block link the GM script adds, confirming, then back to home. Future update I hope to streamline it even further to clicking block, confirm, done.
This is my first GM script, but I hope to build more.
My GreaseMonkey scripts page
My Block Application Links script on Userscripts.org
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