Facebook activated its custom avatars last Friday , already available worldwide, which allow the user to create an emoji with their appearance. However, the saying is already known: “for tastes, colors”. This functionality is not to everyone’s liking and some users are looking for a way to hide them.Facebook avatars can only be hidden on the desktop version of the social network.
For all those users who are looking for a way to remove mentions and the appearance of these personalized emojis from their Facebook wall, there is a solution, although it should be explained that it only works in the desktop browser version of Facebook and will not work in the Android app . and iOS. There we will have to continue “bearing” the avatars.
To hide Facebook avatars, as Lifehacker explains , you first need to install two browser extensions. The first is Tampermonkey, which allows you to activate and configure user scripts in the browser and which will be necessary for the other extension to work: FB Purity, which offers options to “clean” and customize the Facebook wall. Both are available for the main browsers (Chrome, Firefox…).
Secondly, the classic Facebook look must be activated , as the extension will only work on the old version although, once the “trick” is done, it will work even if the user goes back to the new Facebook design.
To return to the classic look, you must click on the inverted arrow that appears in the upper right corner and the options will be displayed. In this drop-down, you must click on the option “Switch to the classic version of Facebook”. Once the avatars have been deleted, it will be possible to reactivate the new version by performing the same action in reverse.
With the FB Purity extension installed, activating the classic version of Facebook will bring up a new option in the navigation bar called “FBP”. Clicking on it will display all the options of the extension. The number of options can be a bit overwhelming, but for now you can pretty much ignore all of them. You must select the “Auto Hide” option , which appears on the right side of the screen, above the text box.
-Next, in the text box, you must write “Avatar”. This will hide all posts with avatars, as well as all posts containing the word “avatar”. Next, the “Font, Color & Design” option should be selected on the left side of the screen, which will display the following options:
Among the options that appear is: “Hide Graphical Smileys/Emoticons” (Hide emoticons), it must be selected and, before exiting FB Purity, the “Save and close” button must be pressed, since if the user exits the screen without saving, the changes will not be saved. To make sure the changes work, any search using the word avatar can be done. If no results appear, the process has been carried out correctly.