Blocking Facebook posts by domain

[Rohan Prinja]

A while ago, Facebook removed a really useful feature for some reason. If you saw an annoying post on Facebook, you could click the arrow in the top right and select "Hide all links from <domain>". I mostly used it to block clickbait sites like Upworthy. But now that FB removed this feature I'm searching for an alternative. Any suggestions (good addons/userscripts)?

[Manish Goregaokar]

A userscript could probably be written in a few minutes. Or tweak adblock ;p

This CSS selector ought to do it. Then again, FB might change their CSS classes a lot, these seem to either be obfuscated or randomly generated. `._4ikz:contains(._52c6[href^='http://downworthy.com'])` (selects all top-level news feed stories that are a promoted link).

Back in my day, CSS did not look like discombobulated Perl. Tsk.

-Manish Goregaokar

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Rohan Prinja <rohan....@gmail.com> wrote:

A while ago, Facebook removed a really useful feature for some reason. If you saw an annoying post on Facebook, you could click the arrow in the top right and select "Hide all links from <domain>". I mostly used it to block clickbait sites like Upworthy. But now that FB removed this feature I'm searching for an alternative. Any suggestions (good addons/userscripts)?

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[Antariksh Bothale]

http://socialfixer.com/

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Rohan Prinja <rohan....@gmail.com> wrote:

A while ago, Facebook removed a really useful feature for some reason. If you saw an annoying post on Facebook, you could click the arrow in the top right and select "Hide all links from <domain>". I mostly used it to block clickbait sites like Upworthy. But now that FB removed this feature I'm searching for an alternative. Any suggestions (good addons/userscripts)?

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[Rohan Prinja]

Antariksh, this is great, thanks! I'm currently using it.

Manish, I'll sit down sometime and write a minimal blocker using what you said, for practice if nothing else :)

Rohan Prinja

Fourth Year, CS Undergrad

IIT Bombay