{"id":3853,"date":"2015-08-05T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2015-08-05T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:01:07","slug":"adblock-is-good-for-more-than-blocking-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/adblock-is-good-for-more-than-blocking-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Adblock is good for more than blocking ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adblock<\/a> works by removing parts of web sites. It has a built-in list of ad companies it can block. But it can also block defined parts of web pages.<\/p>\n

I decided to put it to good use this morning. I don’t like trending topics. I don’t need them and I do my best to avoid them. Their either vapid Celebrity Y said X about Celebrity Z<\/em> nonsense or Clickbaity Headline<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I avoid them on Twitter easily enough but on Facebook their ever-present.<\/p>\n

Until today.
\n\"Removing<\/p>\n

I used adblock to remove part of the page where Facebook puts the Trending Topics, suggested friends and other ads. It worked after a reload of the site. Hopefully it will stick until they change the page design next time.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the filter looks like in Adblock.
\n\"Facebook
\nThe filter is: www.facebook.com##[id=”u_0_0″]<\/strong><\/p>\n

This has made using Facebook on the web more pleasant for me. Hopefully it will help you too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adblock works by removing parts of web sites. It has a built-in list of ad companies it can block. But it can also block defined parts of web pages. I decided to put it to good use this morning. I don’t like trending topics. I don’t need them and I do my best to avoid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Adblock is good for more than blocking ads","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[902,901,30],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-a-quieter-web","tag-adblock","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}