Nothing annoys me more than extraneous stuff on my screen, I'm a minimalist when it comes to my screen real estate. The latest screen annoyance comes from the Facebook Game Ticker scrolling down your screen's right column, where it shows all your friends what games you are playing. Not only a major annoyance but there are privacy issues to consider also. There have been several posts being passed around as to howto workaround it, hide yourself, or install specialized extensions to get rid of it which is all well and good. So what I'm going to show you is just *my* method of getting it off your screen entirely.
First off you will need to head over and install an extension called Adblock Plus. Available in Chrome or Firefox flavours. Once installed it will ask you to initially pick a "Subscription" for adblock rules. So pick one that is most relevant to you; most will pick the 1st off the list, called EasyList. Now the primary function of this extension, is to block *most* adverts you may encounter while browsing the web. You should notice right away when you refresh your FB after installing this that most if not all the adverts you normally would see on the right column have disappeared. Very good indeed! So I will be showing you custom filters to be used to block out the Z-Game Bar and the FB Game Ticker.
Once you've settled in with Adblock Plus, open up it's options screen. I will continue by using example from Chrome, which I use pretty much exclusively these days. It should be relatively straight-forward in Firefox also, so most should not have a problem. Anyways the Adblock Plus options screen is pretty much the same in both browser flavours (the picture you see below). Click on the [Add your own filters] tab.
Now to get rid of the Z-Game Bar you will need to enter ##div.snapi in the dialog box and then click [+ Add Filter] button. Then enter ##div.fixedAux and add also to get rid of FB Game Ticker.
Again the two custom filter rules are these:
##div.snapi
##div.fixedAux
UPDATE: 29-Aug-11
FB added another ticker to our right-hand column detailing what we get from reading our own feed. Here is the custom filter rule for that ticker:
##div.fbFeedTicker
Reload your game and Voilà, tis all gone!
wonderful! Thx M!
ReplyDeleteVery nice. However, the frame is still there and covering up some of the FB links such as game requests. I used that link to quickly collect all my gifts. Any ideas on how to get rid of it?
ReplyDeleteif you use another ad-blocker,maybe you must block (div class="fixedAux")
ReplyDelete(div id="snapi_zbar" class="snapi")
Replace (,) with <,> seems to me HTML is not allowed here.
thank you very much for helping out, I hate these things on fb.
ReplyDeletei got through step 1 now can't get back in to find options, when i tried to re load nothing happens.. help please
ReplyDeleteGreat work on the ticker thing, you are the only person I could find who had the right Adblock filter!
ReplyDeleteYAY!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! :0)
ReplyDeletethis has to be the best post ive ever read lol! "Nothing annoys me more than extraneous stuff on my screen, I'm a minimalist when it comes to my screen real estate." im the very same, which is partly why i love chrome. all i have on-screen is the search bar, back, forward, refresh, home, favs and a couple of extensions, (fgs, site rating, settings and now ABP!) oh and the tab bar. i dont even have any script on the bottom bar, and what i love about my dell is i have the windows bar on hide, pops up when i hover for it, and ive got nothing on my screen either, all tucked away in another bar that i can hide. i hate the clutter that comes on every web page and desktop screen.
ReplyDeletehow do you undo this??
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