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I highly suggest you unfollow everyone on LinkedIn as well; the result is the same: nothing in your feed and no ads, but everything is still available to you—li

I highly suggest you unfollow everyone on LinkedIn as well; the result is the same: nothing in your feed and no ads, but everything is still available to you—like searching for jobs and looking at profiles/messaging folks. I don’t have a tool that does this for you, but it’s definitely the way to go. Literally when I go into LinkedIn it’s just a completely blank page; it’s fucking glorious. —- I deleted Twitter during the 2008 election cycle and I “disabled” my FB acct (allowing me access to Messenger and Marketplace; the former only used for the latter) and it’s been amazing. This is how you deal with these companies: by using their services without the noise and advertising that keeps them afloat.

NayamAmarshe 2y ago
> you unfollow everyone on LinkedIn as well No need, You can use the SocialFocus extension to hide the feed :)
- victor9000 2y ago
  Yeah, you can also do this with a custom filter if you already have an ad blocker like UBlock Origin
  - dotcoma 2y ago
    How do you do this with Ublock Origin? Thanks!
    - victor9000 2y ago
      https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ublock-origin-custom-filters.html https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ublock-origin-custom-fil...
      - dotcoma 2y ago
        Thanks! Do you know if customising Ublock Origin makes you more likely to stand out, and so easier to fingerprint ?
        wizzwizz4 2y ago
        It does, but only on the sites which you've customised. If you're logged in, the question of fingerprinting is somewhat moot.
        dotcoma 2y ago
        Thanks!
wkat4242 2y ago
Unfollowing doesn't work for me. It will just suggest random people and spew their nonsense in your feed and still show ads too. Strange that it does work for you, but not for me! I'll try that extension though mentioned in the other reply, thanks for the tip?
walthamstow 2y ago
I can confirm this LinkedIn trick works and is great
yeahsure 2y ago
I did that for Facebook (unfollowed everyone but my direct family). It worked great for a time. Now my feed is filled to the brim with suggested posts from pages and groups that have nothing to do with me and low-quality fake AI images to push controversial fake news. It's become unusable unfortunately, so I don't use it anymore.
- genewitch 2y ago
  upthread is linked socialfixer plugin, it seemed exactly what i wanted so i installed it and ... it's exactly what i wanted. Just my friends and a couple groups i actively joined, on purpose. I don't know how facebook differentiates "joined by commenting" vs "joined by request", but it seems to do it. You can also tell it to stop scrolling, defaults to 10 posts. you can tell it to order chronologically, instead of "the algo". I read this post whenever it was made (the OP) and i'm glad i read downpage a bit, because i remembered 3 plugins mentioned, and the other one is fbpurity, and the third is i forget, but the Vet mentioned it i think (ctrl-f vet)

NayamAmarshe 2y ago

> you unfollow everyone on LinkedIn as well No need, You can use the SocialFocus extension to hide the feed :)

victor9000 2y ago
Yeah, you can also do this with a custom filter if you already have an ad blocker like UBlock Origin
- dotcoma 2y ago
  How do you do this with Ublock Origin? Thanks!
  - victor9000 2y ago
    https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ublock-origin-custom-filters.html https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ublock-origin-custom-fil...
    - dotcoma 2y ago
      Thanks! Do you know if customising Ublock Origin makes you more likely to stand out, and so easier to fingerprint ?
      - wizzwizz4 2y ago
        It does, but only on the sites which you've customised. If you're logged in, the question of fingerprinting is somewhat moot.
        dotcoma 2y ago
        Thanks!

wkat4242 2y ago

Unfollowing doesn't work for me. It will just suggest random people and spew their nonsense in your feed and still show ads too. Strange that it does work for you, but not for me! I'll try that extension though mentioned in the other reply, thanks for the tip?

walthamstow 2y ago

I can confirm this LinkedIn trick works and is great

yeahsure 2y ago

I did that for Facebook (unfollowed everyone but my direct family). It worked great for a time. Now my feed is filled to the brim with suggested posts from pages and groups that have nothing to do with me and low-quality fake AI images to push controversial fake news. It's become unusable unfortunately, so I don't use it anymore.

genewitch 2y ago
upthread is linked socialfixer plugin, it seemed exactly what i wanted so i installed it and ... it's exactly what i wanted. Just my friends and a couple groups i actively joined, on purpose. I don't know how facebook differentiates "joined by commenting" vs "joined by request", but it seems to do it. You can also tell it to stop scrolling, defaults to 10 posts. you can tell it to order chronologically, instead of "the algo". I read this post whenever it was made (the OP) and i'm glad i read downpage a bit, because i remembered 3 plugins mentioned, and the other one is fbpurity, and the third is i forget, but the Vet mentioned it i think (ctrl-f vet)