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<\/p>\nI go to Facebook every few days, weeks or whatever. Kids’ pics. Volleyball happenings. Doings of people I’ve known over the years.<\/p>\n
What’s happened to my follow-feed, though, is people I know to be fine people in real life appear in the feed as the girl on the left:<\/p>\n
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This is disheartening at best.<\/p>\n
Politics is entertaining, but, golly, let’s not scream at our favorite character on TV when they do something dumb. Get a grip.<\/p>\n
But, of course, the other guy will never get a grip.<\/p>\n
So, for Firefox, there’s Grease Monkey<\/a> and my quick and dirty Grease Monkey script, FaceBookFix.user.js<\/a>, to the rescue.<\/p>\n This script simply takes Facebook posts off screen if they contain, in text form (sadly not in images), any of a list of words.<\/p>\n It’s not heavily tested, to say the least. Which is to say, I tried it a couple times.<\/p>\n I made it easy to add or delete banned words. Non-programmers can change the script if they can find it on their disk and save it as a text file from WordPad or a better text editor.<\/p>\n The results are nice. My feed is now pleasant. Again. “Never do yourself what a computer can do for you,” so the computer now lets me see the real news un-flooded by noise. (If this post makes it to Facebook, I can’t write “f*** news” or the script will make the post invisible to me!)<\/p>\n Oh. Here’s the whole script as of this moment:<\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I go to Facebook every few days, weeks or whatever. Kids’ pics. Volleyball happenings. Doings of people I’ve known over the years. What’s happened to my follow-feed, though, is people I know to be fine people in real life appear … Continue reading <\/p>\n\r\n\/\/ ==UserScript==\r\n\/\/ @name FaceBookFix\r\n\/\/ @namespace https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\r\n\/\/ @description Get rid of sad Facebook tantrums. https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/alex\/public_stuff\/FaceBookFix.user.js\r\n\/\/ @include https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\r\n\/\/ @version 1\r\n\/\/ @grant none\r\n\/\/ ==\/UserScript==\r\n\r\n\/***\r\n\r\n FaceBook posts containing any of these listed strings are whacked.\r\n\r\n The strings are in in no particular order.\r\n\r\n Change as you see fit.\r\n\r\n Non-programmers, leave the last one as the last one.\r\n\r\n Non-programers, for syntax reasons, do not put any:\r\n single-quote ( ' )\r\n pipe\/vertical_stroke ( | )\r\n backslash ( \\ )\r\n characters in any of the strings.\r\n\r\n***\/\r\nvar find_these_strings = [\r\n 'killary',\r\n 'drumpf',\r\n 'obozo',\r\n 'shillary',\r\n 'repuglican',\r\n 'democrap',\r\n 'libtard',\r\n 'faux news',\r\n 'hilliary', \/\/ I forget other Internet commenters' alternate spellings. More to come, for sure.\r\n 'trump',\r\n 'hillary',\r\n 'clinton',\r\n 'HRC',\r\n 'DJT',\r\n 'obama',\r\n 'biden',\r\n 'pence',\r\n 'nixon',\r\n 'watergate',\r\n 'reagan',\r\n 'steve bannon',\r\n 'stevebannon',\r\n 'bernie sanders',\r\n 'berniesanders',\r\n 'bernie', \/\/ Sorry about this, Bernie-from-Dimas-days. Your brand has been trashed.\r\n 'sanders',\r\n 'george bush', \/\/ 'bush' is just too generic\r\n 'georgebush',\r\n ' g bush',\r\n ' gbush',\r\n ' gw bush',\r\n ' gwbush',\r\n ' h bush',\r\n ' hbush',\r\n ' hw bush', \/\/ did I get these bushes right?\r\n ' hwbush',\r\n 'kkk', \/\/ why are Hollywood and the news guys obsessed with the KKK? No one in the real world cares about them.\r\n 'mcconnell', \/\/ maybe this should be only mitch McConnell\r\n 'sean spicer',\r\n 'seanspicer',\r\n 'harry reid',\r\n 'harryreid',\r\n 'paul ryan',\r\n 'paulryan',\r\n 'muslim',\r\n 'impeach',\r\n 'senate',\r\n 'house of rep',\r\n 'parliment',\r\n 'merkel',\r\n 'abortion',\r\n 'pro-life',\r\n 'prolife',\r\n 'pro-choice',\r\n 'prochoice',\r\n 'occupy democrats',\r\n 'occupy wall',\r\n 'fake news',\r\n 'iran',\r\n 'iraq',\r\n 'isreal',\r\n 'saudia arabia',\r\n 'potus',\r\n 'scotus',\r\n 'executive order',\r\n 'daily show', \/\/ ? poeple seem to feel this show is really important when it discusses politics\r\n 'fuck', \/\/ the whole profanity list should be here.\r\n 'shit',\r\n 'Note: Leave this here at the end of the list.'\r\n ];\r\nfind_these_strings = find_these_strings.join('|').toLowerCase().split('|');\r\nfind_these_strings.pop(); \/\/ get rid of the comment at the end\r\n\r\n\r\n(function (){\r\n\r\nfunction fix_this_facebook_thing()\r\n{\r\n var divs = document.getElementsByTagName(\"div\"); \/\/ Find all DIV elements in the page\r\n \/\/ window.console.log(\"fixing \" + Date.now() + \" \" + divs.length);\r\n for (var el_number in divs) \/\/ Python is *so* superior to JavaScript\r\n {\r\n var el = divs[el_number];\r\n if ((el.id != undefined) && el.id.startsWith('hyperfeed_story_id_')) \/\/ For each post in the feed\r\n {\r\n var htm = el.innerHTML.toLowerCase(); \/\/ Look for any of the strings without regard to case\r\n \/\/ window.console.log(\"scanning \" + el.id + \" \" + htm.length);\r\n for (string_number in find_these_strings)\r\n {\r\n var fs = find_these_strings[string_number]; \/\/ For each of the strings to find\r\n if (htm.indexOf(fs) >= 0) \/\/ Is the string in the post in text form? (sadly missing them in images and videos)\r\n {\r\n el.style.display = 'none'; \/\/ Yes. Take the post off screen\r\n \/\/ window.console.log(\"whacked: \" + fs + \" in \" + el.id);\r\n break; \/\/ And don't keep looking in the this post for more matches.\r\n }\r\n }\r\n }\r\n }\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\nvar timeout_every_couple_seconds = window.setInterval(fix_this_facebook_thing, 2017);\r\n\r\n\r\n}());\r\n\r\n\r\n\/\/ eof\r\n<\/pre>\n