Facebook Duct Tape

Facebook has officially updated it's page. Facebook Duct Tape no longer works. If there is enough interest, I will write one for the new Facebook layout.

UPDATE 3 (03/04/2009): Facebook is updating their home page in the near future, though they don't say when. I can almost guarantee that FB Duct Tape will no longer work once the new home page goes live.

Have you seen this video on "The 25 things I hate about Facebook?" The important bit is at 2:54…

After seeing that, I thought "It can be done." So I did it. This is not a Photoshop™. This is now what I see when I log in to Facebook:

fb-ducttape_th2

How'd I do it? You'll need the Stylish Firefox extension, and this script I wrote. The huge chunk of characters is the image. That's the only way I found to get Stylish to load a local image instead of using a server.

Now enjoy your still useless, but now duct-taped sidebar on Facebook..

(I'm fully aware this is just a simple CSS background image, and it's entirely pointless, but so is Facebook. I just wanted to say "I can duct-tape over that crap in Facebook.")

UPDATE: Script has been updated to duct tape over the ad-bar, too.

UPDATE 2: Even Julian loves the duct tape:

Dude - hahaha YOU are my hero. That is incredible. Totally sending that to my facebook list.
[...]
--Julian

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Posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:04 am.
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  • aim
    this is awsome...but how exactly do you undo this is you want to take it off after a while?
  • You can simply disable the script in stylish when you no longer want to look at duct tape. Click on the Stylish icon in the status bar and deselect "FB Duct Tape." It should go away instantly.
  • luis
    can it be undone?
  • Genius...we've all been thinking it. I swear, if I am given one more plant....ugh!!!
  • BK
    Yo! You need to make one that is two pieces in the shape of an x to put across our profiles. Then those of us chain-facebookers trying to quit can have a reminder...
  • Nadz
    where do you post the script?
  • The link to the script is in the post. It's on UserStyles.org. You'll need either Greasemonkey or Stylish installed in Firefox.
  • Derek
    Can you make one that goes over the advertisements?
  • Currently, the script will only cover advertisements on profile pages. Facebook seems to be smart enough in that the div ids and classes are different on nearly every page.
  • Nice concept, Facebook is getting ready to roll out a new homepage design, so you'll have to re-edit the script when that launches. :-)
  • Well aware: http://iamawesome.net/2009/03/facebook-updating...

    Once the page goes live, I'll tackle it.
  • ESRA'A
    man that's the first time i hear sth from ur videos and i can tell you by now i'm in love with you .... :D
  • Dude... that is so funny.
  • A
    Who are you, really?!
  • DudY
    WOW !
    That Is More Dan Cool ..
    AMAZING ..
  • SilentBob
    Why did you encode the jpg url in base64 ? It's a Stylish restriction ?

    By the way, that's amazing !
  • Encoding the jpg directly into the script is the only way (I'm aware of, at least) to get an image to ride along with a Stylish script. The other option would have been to point the url to a server somewhere. But I really didn't want to do that since it would require more bandwidth both on me and the end user.
  • Gah. Disqus delay in showing my comment. This was a dupe. Gone now.
  • Kate
    I can't get the duct tape off, can you help me? Awesome though!
  • You should be able to click on the Stylish icon in the status bar (or goto Tools:Stylish) and uncheck "FB-DuctTape."
  • poop
    this is cool... but does it acually work? I tryed it, and it wont do anything!!
  • KittysDuctTape
    I made one for the right sidebar on the "new" Facebook.
    http://kittysducttape.com
  • Okay, so I tried installing it, but userstyles is currently not working. Any way I can get the script elsewhere?
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