Facebook App Spam Remover
13/11/2007Update: Version 1.04 released 18th November 2007
About
Recently Facebook has started adding notifications about your friends using applications to your news feed. This can clutter it up with 500 people biting each others with the Vampire application, or dozens of notices about people taking some random quiz. To make matters worse, these notifications take up a fair bit of space, with a big picture next to each entry.
The script also has the ability to hide application invite requests from the side-bar, so that people who insist upon inviting you to add every single application won’t fill up your right hand menu with requests.
This simple Greasemonkey script transparently removes these notifications from your news feed, as well as the sponsored news feed entry adverts. You need either Mozilla Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension or Opera to use it.
Download
If you have Greasemonkey installed correctly, the following link should prompt you to install the script. For installing in Opera, please see the Opera installation instructions.
The script has some user configurable options, to set them please edit the script and change the options at the top. The default settings should be fine for most people.
Latest version: 1.04
Facebook App Spam Remover 1.04
The latest version also available via Subversion, You can install the latest subversion revision directly. The version in the repository is the latest bleeding edge development code and as such may contain bugs or glitches, it may also contain features not available in the released version.
Bug Reporting
Bugs can be reported via the Trac system. You can create tickets when you register.