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Three ways to hide the Facebook sidebar with userscripts
If you don't like the new Facebook "Highlights" sidebar, and you've been dying to get rid of "People You May Know," then you should definitely consider installing a userscript that will hide those elements for you. The appropriately-named "Hide Facebook Sidebar" script does the trick quite nicely, while leaving your events and friends' birthdays alone. There's also "Hide Highlights Sidebar," which hides highlights, but doesn't get rid of the "People You May Know" box. I personally find that particular recommendation feature useless, as it always suggests people I'm intentionally not friends with on Facebook, and there's no way to filter them out. If you like it, though, then you should pick this script instead of Hide Facebook Sidebar.
If you'd rather get rid of both the left and the right sidebars, and expand the main feed to fill the space, you want "New Facebook - Remove Highlights and left filters." It's called New Facebook, but it actually makes the layout look a lot more like the old Facebook. All three of these scripts can be loaded into Greasemonkey (or your browser's equivalent) or Stylish, which is a Greasemonkey-like extension just for reskinning and making cosmetic fixes to websites.
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mko said 2:26PM on 3-30-2009
Actually sidebar is better than main content area. (For me at least)
What I need is a way to hide shared "omg lol" videos and links.
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Ali Karbassi said 11:10PM on 3-30-2009
Or this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44181
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wilderworks said 8:41PM on 3-31-2009
You can "filter" out the people you are intentionally avoiding by going into the "people you may know" section and clicking on the X next to that person. They pleasingly vanish. I've been doing this for ages, and I've never seen anyone resurrected.
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oilyflutesalad said 5:06PM on 4-03-2009
Hi, just found your page when I googled "remove facebook highlights" to see how my style was doing, thanks for the link (mine's the last one).
I thought I'd post here to say that I've been working a little on my style over the past couple days, and in the last 10 minutes I've managed to remove the Highlights section completely so please, if anyone has installed it please update, you won't be disappointed!
All my code is commented, so if you would rather keep the filters or the "Sponsored" parts (or anything else I remove) then simply delete that section of code when you load it into Stylish or Greasemonkey.
mko, although I haven't looked into ways of hiding videos and links posted by people, if you (like me) are getting fed up of seeing dozens of "Quiz" posts on your News Feed, you can Block each application by clicking it's logo in the bottom-left corner (With the comment / like links). It's a bit tedious and definitely repetitive, but at least it cleans it up.
If anyone has any ideas on how I can further develop my style (3,355 people can't be wrong) there is a contact form you can use on www.beautifulways.co.uk or you can just reply to this comment.
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Laura said 9:49AM on 4-23-2009
Thank you so much for posting this!! I so wanted to get rid of the Sponsored thingy and the whole sidebar and this worked like a charm!!!
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