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Reviews for F-B Hide Recommendations and Reels

F-B Hide Recommendations and Reels by mrinc

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Review by Pariah
by Pariah, 2 years ago
As far as I can tell this addon does nothing. 107.0.1, Linux Mint 19.3

Developer response

posted 2 years ago
What website language do you have set?

https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels

It is possible we do not hanve your language and thus don't do anything to prevent breaking the page altogether.

If you open up dev tools, you should see logs from the plugin to verify what it is doing :)
24 reviews
  • by Naglis, a month ago
    Great add-on to curb your social media usage. Initialy it did't work due to non english language, however as prescribed in the describtion, once swithing FB language to english, all ads and garbage recomended posts disappeared. Perfect, it's 10/10
  • by backwoodsman, a month ago
    Works with some versions of Firefox, not with others.
  • by ArneWeise, 5 months ago
    Worked well until a few weeks ago, now it doesn't block anything.
  • by n3ver, 5 months ago
    Not working. Reels suggestions are still there albeit blocked in the add-on settings.
  • by Dean Heistand, 8 months ago
    This extension works well for me. I would like to see an option of being able to view a reel that was shared by a FB friend. Perhaps something as simple as a "View blocked Reel" button where it indicates a reel has been blocked? Thank you to the developer for developing this, it was sorely needed!
  • by Firefox user 12728592, 9 months ago
  • by Bout's Morgan, 10 months ago
    Perfect. Thanks mrinc for release 1.26.48.
  • by David J, a year ago
    Just installed it and am still monitoring but it appears, after going through the configuration settings, that it's doing exactly what it was designed to do. I have a FB business page that's always dumping reels and "suggested for you" garbage on me and this extension has stopped them all, so far. The only reels or videos I'm seeing are ones that I've allowed through folks I'm "following". 5 stars.

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • by Ide, a year ago
    It works, remember you need to have your facebook language set on english(US) for it to work.

    My only issue is that is wrongly flags normal shared post and reels and blocks them
  • by Firefox user 18049757, a year ago
    Doesn't remove Reels at all.
  • by Firefox user 15185905, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 16207797, a year ago
    It doesn't work at all
  • by Firefox user 17789087, a year ago
    It really is very good and does get rid of those irritating reels.

    Sadly I've mislaid Mitchell's email and can't seem to be able to get in touch directly, but this addon also seems to hide the "create facebook post" box, replacing it with a "Facebook hide recommendations and reels v1.26.28" message; quite annoying when in the middle of preparing a post as you have to refresh the facebook page to be able to get the "post" box back and then the draft messag is gone!

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hey,

    Sorry on the delay.

    Create an issue on my github page if you need any more help :) - https://github.com/mrinc/F-B-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels/issues and let's check it out.

    I did just push a change that allows you to configure if you want to hide/show the create post
  • by Firefox user 15026486, a year ago
    Just installed it. I appreciate that it doesn't just jump to a webpage in plain text explaining how it works, but it's a no-nonsense intro with the actual toggles there.

    Super simple to set up. So far it works like a charm. Thank you, facebook is downright unusable without a tool like this.

    <3
  • by Nibinaear, a year ago
    It just seems to be blinking posts on and off and not scrolling properly anymore.
    To developer: Thanks

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hey,

    It will hide posts as you scroll as they appear.

    What I have noticed is sometimes fb just bombards you with stuff that is going to be hidden, so you'll see is flicker quite a bit while it hides a ton... then fb pushes new items to the main feed and it continues.
    After a few seconds it calms and all is normal.

    If it's being weird, try just a refresh of fb and see if that helps.

    If you are still having issues, please log a ticket on our github repo and we can work on a solution :)


    -- update 05/Nov/2023

    I just pushed an update now where it doesn't hide the elements in small boxes, but rather covers them so they match the background... Once you start scrolling very far down the feed and you trigger any action, you end up somewhere ... so this fixes that :)
  • by kishorfarm, 2 years ago
    10/10 it works great. Thanks. I had to change Language to English but once done it worked flawlessly. I also added a rule to uBlock Origin to hide the "Was a reel before" boxes.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    We're waiting on firefox to release a new version ... hopefully this month...

    But the new version contains a heap of updates, which include config options to hide those boxes if you do not want to see them, more languages and more configurable options.

    You'll know when you have the update though ... a popup will apear for you to configure the plugin - when that happens, you can remove the ublock rules since they wont be needed anymore :)

    ** Update: new version released - you should be good to go now :)
  • by ThisBrowserFellOff, 2 years ago
    Waste of time. Doesn't achieve the one goal it set out accomplish. Currently using Fb in English, yet Suggested posts and reels still visible. Add-on doesn't even retain any settings you change.

    Garbage.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hi Browser falling off :)

    Please could you log an issue on our github page: https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels/issues
    And we can see why it's not working for you.

    It is possible that FB changed something or for what ever reason, it just doesn't render on your side.

    If you go F12/Dev Tools - and look at the console.
    You should see 'contentCleaner' log events in the console.
    If you do not see anything - then the plugin hasn't loaded on the page
    - you can try refresh the page as well to see if it loads.
  • by Firefox user 17568747, 2 years ago
  • by Nicoco, 2 years ago
    It works as long as I set Facebook language to English. It would be nice if it worked in other languages too.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hey Nicoco,

    You can add a new lang yourself by submitting a PR (push request) or log an issue with the details - https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels

    And we can add additional languages :)
  • by mandanara, 2 years ago
    Works for me.
  • by Sam, 2 years ago
    I could cry with relief. Works perfectly. THANKYOU!!!
  • by Vale, 2 years ago
    Sometimes works, sometimes not. Recently it was removed from Chrome store for violating the store policy. I'm not sure if it's safe or not to use.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Yea... FB flagged us for violating their trademark -_-

    But you can view all the source here : https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels
    And since google wont repub unless fb give the ok, and fb wont allow a repub ... we had to create a new extension :/

    Stupid - but we got OK now with new ext and branding - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fb-hide-recommendations-a/mgfdapnedjhfmhcaglenpnjaocjpfplj?hl=en-GB&authuser=0
  • by Firefox user 14149517, 2 years ago
    Everything works, except that it also hides the story section, and I don't see any option that disables that feature.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Added an issue for this: https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-Reels/issues/8

    - Pushed and live for Firefox - when your plugin updates, there is a setting you can enable/disable stories (1.20.8)