If you use Facebook, you’ve probably seen entries like this in your news feed.

They seem to just be popular posts from pages that your friends ‘like’. I find them to generally be irrelevant, so I made a user script to hide them.

It was an interesting opportunity to poke around the Facebook frontend JavaScript code. I also tried out MutationObservers and built my knowledge of XPath, which is very powerful.

Code is in the Hide_Facebook_Like_News.user.js Gist, which also explains how to use it:

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