A Cleaner Facebook using Kynetx
To avoid a long rant I am just going to say that I have gotten sick of marking advertisements on Facebook as “offensive” only to see more of the ads that I have marked as offensive. Is this a joke or does Facebook just not care or is it something entirely different? I’m not sure but I got sick of it so I took 30 minutes of my time and created a Kynetx application that removes ads from facebook when I use it.
Some of you might be wondering, why not just use adblockplus or a greasemonkey script?
- I’m crazy about Kynetx
- In 30 min. I had 5 deployment paths
- bookmarklet
- information card
- Firefox Browser Extension
- Chrome Browser Extension
- IE Browser Extension
- I can expand functionality of the application in the future.
- There is a profit strategy that I could utilize in the future! $$$$
- Deploying updates and Features is instantaneous and easy
- Runs from the cloud so Kynetx can pull the plug if it become malicious
YOU WANT THAT!
Bookmarklet
iCard
Firefox Browser Extension
Chrome Browser Extension
IE Browser Extension
Nice app, Mike! My only qualm is that (using the browser extension for both Chrome and Firefox on Linux) it scoots all the content to the right instead of keeping it where it should be up next to the bar on the left. I don’t know exactly how you have it set up, but it looks rather like the ads are being removed, rather than being hidden in place.
Any ideas about that?
@Steven,
I completely agree. I don’t like how the content gets moved over when I remove the ad div. I’m going to be working on a better solution today. We’ll see how it goes. ; ) Thanks for the feedback.
If all your doing is removing that sidebar why not just go with a user generated stylesheet? FF plugin Stylish makes it easy, just add custom style, find the div you don’t want to see and add display:none and it’s gone.
I have a handful of websites that I go to often and don’t like how some things are laid out. You can override those styles easily that way, without having to get into Kynetx (I know that’s not your point, you actually want to do more with Kynetx), but still it’s a much lighter option IMO. Plus it works for anything style related. I use it mostly to turn the display off, but for example on facebook I’ve adjusted other styles to stretch across that unused space, so there is more room for posts and content, on other sites I’ve replaced annoying background images for custom flat covers, fixed their css errors so things show up correctly etc.
I’d like to hear more about Kynetx as things develop. If I were still in Rexburg I’d probably be playing around with it too. Good luck.
I’m glad you bring that point up. Just adding a style sheet to hide or modify the page would be easier and lighter but that is not my end goal with this Kynetx application. Removing the side ads is just the first step. I plan on building in features that would replace the advertising that I could sell to local businesses and local universities. Part of my idea is that I can sell advertising, games, polls, etc. to local businesses that I put there that are more relevant to the demographic that have installed the app. If local college students had the app installed, they could potentially get university updates, local coupon offerings, class reminders, and more.