How To Disable Facebook Suggested Pages

Gurjit Saturday, March 16, 2013
Facebook Suggested Pages
Disable Facebook Suggested Pages
Now-A-Days the Social Networks War is becoming more hot and interesting. Many new players like Pinterest are giving high competition to Social giants like Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is experimenting with many new features and improvements as they don't want to be get vanished like Orkut. But as Old Timeline Feature, not all new improvements are welcomed by users and here is another one. This is the Suggested Page feature which spams everyone's wall or timeline. Facebook gives suggestions for pages that may be of your interest but it looks so ugly and spammy so their are many users who wants to disable or turn this feature Off.
Also Read: How To Delete/Remove Your Facebook Profile/Account
          Well, if you are the one of them who wanted to disable/turn Off or delete this 'Suggested Pages' feature then here are some good news for you. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can do that by changing your privacy settings in Facebook. The tutorial goes as:
Also Read: How to Disable FB Timeline
 How To Disable Or Turn OFF Suggested Pages in Facebook:
  1. Go to Facebook Homepage.
  2. On the top right corner of the browser window, click on the settings icon and then choose 'Privacy Settings' from drop down menu.
  3. On the left sidebar, click on Apps.
  4. Now scroll down on this page and find 'Instant Personalization' and click on edit.
  5. A New Pop Up Window may open. Click on close.
  6. Uncheck the option saying 'Enable instant personalization on partner websites'.
  7. A new pop up will open asking for confirmation. Click on Confirm.
    That's All. Now Go to your Facebook Timeline or Wall and Start facebooking without spammy recommendations or suggestions.
You have to wait 30 seconds.
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39 Comments

  1. Olawale Daniel17 March 2013 at 10:07

    Helpful guide. Just going to apply this on my timeline. Thanks for it :)

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    1. Gurjit8 June 2013 at 07:51

      Thanks for stopping by..I am so glad that you liked it.

      With Regards.

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  2. Anonymous19 March 2013 at 18:27

    This guide doesnt actually work.

    For a proper working solution, simply install the safe and free "FB Purity" browser extension, it will hide all facebook ads, and also the "suggested posts" and "suggested pages".

    It works like a dream, and is highly recommended by me and thousands of other users.

    You can get it here: http://www.fbpurity.com

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    1. Gurjit20 March 2013 at 08:04

      @ Anonymous, Whoever you are. I feel sorry that it doesn't works for you. I also published a guide for fb purity, you can check it at:
      How To Disable Facebook Timeline With FB Purity This extension is available for both Mozilla and Firefox browsers.
      Thanks for your feedback. Hope you'll find that guide useful.
      With Regards.

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    2. Unknown26 March 2014 at 22:36

      My computer become slow down using any extension :( I just used adblocker once...

      Delete
    3. Serena2 February 2016 at 22:57

      no instant personalizatin any more.. this doesnt work

      Delete
  3. Fenny25 April 2013 at 17:52

    Instant Personalisation isn't available for all users, including me, but we still see suggested posts. Maybe disabling it may help in some instances, but it's not the answer to getting rid of all suggested posts.

    The only answer is to contact the companies whose suggested posts appear on your news feed and tell them that they are wasting their money advertising with FB, as their ad placement and target demographics are usually woefully incorrect.

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    1. Gurjit29 May 2013 at 12:06

      Thanks Fenny for your Suggestion. Above method Worked fine for me. But as now i have seen, The Suggestions are started again. Its so bad for Facebook that they are filling their Website with Annoying Advertisements. At least they should give an option to Turn Off Facebook Suggested Pages.

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    2. Anonymous31 March 2014 at 17:49

      Is this woman for real?

      It is insulting that every time a 'suggested' group of ads appear, the first one is for a religion. Facebook supporting advertising by religions? How irresponsible!

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    3. A-nose9 December 2015 at 22:36

      Totally agree what Alien said, I hate religion especially islam. But FB suggestion page always appear islam religion advertising(look like muslim like flood their religion everywhere and pages)which make me feel disgust. FB should let people choice to setting what we want to read the page, not religion which promote anywhere without asking.

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  4. Anonymous4 June 2013 at 13:50

    wow

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  5. Unknown16 June 2013 at 13:58

    This was a big help thank you : )

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    1. Gurjit19 June 2013 at 11:46

      You are Welcome, Dear Simons. Keep visiting.

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  6. Sylvia2 July 2013 at 09:14

    Doesn't work. Mine wasn't even on and I still get them.

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    1. Gurjit4 July 2013 at 03:21

      Sorry Sylvia, But that is all that i know about them. It is Facebook which can solve this problem. I think they are getting a huge amount of money from Advertisers for annoying their users with such Spam.

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    2. Anonymous26 August 2013 at 13:26

      I agree, mine was not even on and I am getting many suggested pages that are absolutely nothing I have any interest in. Went thru and deleted them all, and upon next check they were all back.......very frustrating and in some cases very embarrassing!

      Delete
  7. Anonymous31 July 2013 at 11:54

    My account already had Instant Personalization unchecked, but I was still getting suggested posts. Obviously FB doesn't want us to disable this spam feature. I barely use FB anyway, just to occasionally check on family and friends.

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    1. Gurjit31 July 2013 at 21:49

      Yes, it seems like FB don't care about its users anymore. Me also started using Google+. Its UI is great and the big thing is that all accounts are genuine and not fake like Facebook profiles. :)

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  8. Anonymous2 August 2013 at 17:49

    Instant personalization is not there any more. The settings are so dumbed down now. the user has very little control anymore.

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    1. Gurjit4 August 2013 at 06:01

      Yes Dear....Hope Facebook will do something in this regard.

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  9. toadlady26 August 2013 at 07:09

    Mine says 'Note: instant personalisation is not yet available for you.' and I am not allowed to uncheck the 'enabled' box. :(

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    1. Gurjit29 August 2013 at 08:00

      Hmm..Really frustrating..I think now we need to switch to G+ or Twitter :).

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  10. Anonymous13 September 2013 at 17:10

    I've had that unchecked for ages yet I still get the annoying suggestions. Each time I get one I report it as spam and when Facebook asks why I'm not interested I reply with 'because I'm not an idiot, I know how to read and I know how to decide for myself what I do and don't like. What I would really like is for them to go back to the basic fun system it was in the beginning and to just back off and let me choose who I do and don't like.' I know they don't care and they probably never even see it but I get so fed up with their suggestions. They're treating us all like idiots who can't think for ourselves. If I was smart enough to find Facebook then I'm smart enough to find the pages I like without their annoying suggestions!

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  11. Jason Adams15 December 2013 at 15:46

    My issue is that I'm getting suggestions like Maxin. Playboy (from every country), etc.! I have installed FB Purity on my desktop and it works great, HOWEVER my mobile app is still infested with this junk! How do I rid myself of this on the Android app???

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    1. Gurjit17 December 2013 at 21:18

      Hello Jason,
      Although, I am not sure about your device, but I think you should try Adblocker App for your device. That can be helpful in disabling the suggested pages and all that kind of crap on your mobile. I hope the FB Purity will launch an application for Android soon.
      Thanks and Regards.

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  12. Anonymous15 December 2013 at 17:16

    These comments are all well and good, but none have them have solved the problem. I have just wasted lots of time getting nowhere... Why waffle if you're not going to offer a solution?

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    1. Gurjit17 December 2013 at 21:24

      Blame to Facebook Bro, We have offered the solution and it did worked before but it is not anymore. I am really sorry for that.

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  13. Anonymous9 February 2014 at 13:23

    No more facebook spam! Thank you

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  14. Anonymous13 February 2014 at 19:12

    Thank you.

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  15. Anonymous27 March 2014 at 03:33

    I am getting FarmVille 2 promotions every time I click a FarmVille post of a friend to help. It only just began with the new feed change. How can I get rid of this? I blocked this game and other, but an still getting invitations.

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  16. Anonymous27 March 2014 at 10:48

    I am starting to delete EVERY suggestion and when I get to the screen where it asks me why I check the worst suggestion they have. If they are going to force me to look at this stuff I will mess with their statistics and give inaccurate data...

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  17. Anonymous2 May 2014 at 07:18

    I've done it twice as you say. BOTH times failed. And the REMOVE 'X' that facebook provides is faulty too - every time I remove GEORGE 'bloody' TAKEI - he comes back again.... and so do many others keep coming every single day. Facebook 'wake up' you are pissing people off with offering to remove things and failing to do so.... Recommendations are so bogus. All FB do is forward EVERYTHING that a FRIEND has looked at or ticked LIKE, plus a load of random crap. One FRIEND REQUEST was in foreign language and had a man's genitals as a profile picture. A child could get this ?????? Offensive Facebook.

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    1. Anonymous28 December 2015 at 06:44

      Only hypocrites make people use apps they dislike, don't want. Suggest Edits operates on its own, proving this is an intrusion of privacy. Hypocrites allow this, and deserve to be judged by courts for their actions.

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  18. Anonymous10 July 2014 at 09:15

    I have no settings as explained. Worthless!

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  19. Anonymous28 December 2015 at 06:36

    Only hypocrites make people use things they dislike, don't need, nor want. It's also an intrusion on their privacy, since the Suggest Edits app acts on its own, without the input of the users.

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  20. Anonymous10 February 2016 at 16:18

    I got to step 4 and the current version of FB does not have 'Instant Personalization' on the screen. Are there updated instructions to remove Suggested Groups from the FB app running on an iPad?

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  21. Anonymous10 February 2016 at 16:20

    I follow the instructions to step 4 but the current version of FB does not have 'Instant Personalization' on the page indicated. Do you have updated instructions to remove Suggested Groups from iPad FB app?

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