I am an avid Facebook user, as I’m sure many of you are, but if it’s one thing I hate it’s advertisements sprawling all over my nice, clean web pages!  Adblock Plus, a fantastic extension for Firefox, used to take care of the majority of the ads for me but for some reason it hasn’t kept up with Facebook.  I was inundated with ads I simply didn’t want to see, nor waste my bandwidth on, so I had to come up with a solution.  Google turned up a simple answer to my problem via The Asbury Blog and I no longer have to put up with Facebook ads.  Check it out:

How to block Facebook ads within the Firefox browser:

1. Go to this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
2. Click: Add To Firefox (You might have to restart firefox at this point)
3. Under the Tools menu in Firefox, select Adblock Plus
4. Click the Add Filter button
5. Copy and paste the following filter: facebook.com#*(social_ad)
6. Click OK
7. Copy and paste the following filter: facebook.com#*(social_ad_advert)
8. Click OK
9. Close Firefox, then open it and go to Facebook – Adblock Plus should block all Facebook ads

If you haven’t yet ditched Internet Explorer, here is the download link for Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Tags: Adblock Plus, Block Facebook Ads, Firefox

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