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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—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.

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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.

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> you unfollow everyone on LinkedIn as well

No need, You can use the SocialFocus extension to hide the feed :)

Yeah, you can also do this with a custom filter if you already have an ad blocker like UBlock Origin

How do you do this with Ublock Origin? Thanks!

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ublock-origin-custom-fil...

Thanks!

Do you know if customising Ublock Origin makes you more likely to stand out, and so easier to fingerprint ?

It does, but only on the sites which you've customised. If you're logged in, the question of fingerprinting is somewhat moot.

Thanks!

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.

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)

I can confirm this LinkedIn trick works and is great

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?

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