Take out Advertisements Not through Facebook Virus on Timeline
Quite a few Facebook users have been seeing ads while using Facebook Timeline that are displayed with a message saying, “ads not by Facebook”.
It turns out that the third party advertisements are displayed via a third party extension installed on your Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome browser.
I have not been able to find any information on the legality of these advertisements but one thing is for sure – these are intrusive and annoying!
The ads are generally in the form of banner advertisements that show up on Facebook Timeline profiles just like the one inside the image below
Facebook has released a help video on removing malware from the Facebook Timeline profile but the video is quite broad and doesn't address this specific problem.
Determined by which browser you’re using, follow the instructions below to remove the “ads not by Facebook” appearing on your Facebook Timeline profile.
To remove the non-Facebook advertisements you have to access your browser’s extensions and disable any of them that look fishy.
If you see an extension that you didn’t install, disable it. If none of them look suspicious, you must sill disable them one-by-one and check Facebook after disabling every one to see if the advertisements have been removed.
Listed below are steps to access your extensions in each browser:
Disable Extensions in Google Chrome:
Click the “Window” menu and be able to extensions. Disable and remove any suspicious extensions.
Disable Extensions in Mozilla Firefox:
Click the “Tools” menu and be able to “Add-ons“. Disable and remove any suspicious add-ons or extensions extensions.
Disable Extensions in Apple Safari:
Click the “Safari” menu, “Preferences…” and then the “Extensions” tab. Disable and remove any fishy extensions extensions.
If you happen to run in to any problems or have additional steps on removing the “ads not by Facebook” virus for Facebook Timeline, please let me know inside comments section below!
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