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I have an extra Facebook account (yes, I know it's "illegal"  ) that I had set up for the sole purpose of posting articles from the Wall Street Journal so that I could get around its seemingly impenetrable paywall - a ploy that doesn't even seem to work anymore! I should say that I been using my regular account in Firefox, and this extra account in Chrome, so it hasn't been an issue going back & forth.
Anyway, because Firefox has automatically updated to a new version (66.0.3), all the add-ons for that are now broken , and thus Firefox is currently a dodgy browser to use (I've figured out how to add the add-ons back in some type of temporary debug status, but of course, some of them are causing strange behavior ). So I used Chrome to access Facebook, and thus that extra account was in the cookie to have me logged in, and I noticed a huge number of notifications from 2 accounts that are not my Friends or anything else like that that I can detect. I tried searching for how to accomplish this, but alas, I have failed  - and thus I have come here to the ask the masters on how to do this. 
EDIT: It seems that these notifications are termed as "Pages you may like", so maybe Facebook itself is pumping these notifications?
modified 5-May-19 21:01pm.
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: > Settings > Privacy and security > Site settings > Notifications
Block / allow what you will! 
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OK, I did "Settings" - "Notifications", and turned off "Activity that involves you" and set "Tags" to "Friends" (that had been "Everyone"). Let's see if this stops the spam.
Now how do I delete the notifications that have already arrived? "mad:
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swampwiz wrote: I have an extra Facebook account (yes, I know it's "illegal" ) that I had set up for the sole purpose of posting articles from the Wall Street Journal so that I could get around its seemingly impenetrable paywall
So, let's see if I've got this straight:
0. You breached the terms and comnditions of one site so that...
1. ... You could steal from another site
2. The first site informs you whenever it receives a message for you
3. This is the first site's correct function, rather than for use in committing fraud
4. You want our help to make the first site stop doing its duty, and simply continue to help you steal from the second site.
Sorry, but I don't use fb, so I don't have a clue.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Check Firefox for updates I was able to re-download and enable add-ons last night. Strangely though, my father wasn't able to do the same.
For reference, I had uninstalled hoping I could reinstall to fix before I knew the actual problem.
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swampwiz wrote: I have come here to the ask the masters on how to do this
Ok. Here goes:
Get rid of Facebook. It'll simplify your life. You don't need it. Repeat that last sentence until you realize it's absolutely true.
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Getting old is making me mad. I can’t remember how to write 1,1000,51,6 and 500 in Roman numerals.
IM LIVID
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Just remember: getting old may be a pain, but ... it's better than the alternative! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: When in Rome, don't get mad
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You could at least take a stab at it.
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Et Tu Piebald? 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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You brute!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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All right! All right!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Shoutout IV the crazy ones!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Not to nitpick, but using the rules for forming Roman numbers, shouldn't these be 999, 54, and 499?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Not to nitpick,
Yeah, right... 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Not to nitpick (in exactly the same way as you!) but 999 = CMXCIX, 499 = CDXCIX.
There are a limited number of subtraction rules (smaller number in front of larger) in Roman Numerals.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I have been working on and off (at home) on that single algorithm for almost 2 and half years, I think.
I am now very close to completion with an elegantly simple algorithm 
Except.. it doesn't work...
After days of staring at my screen I came up with a test that shows an internal data inconsistency that will predict failure.
But... basically the validation is a loop doing some calculation at each step.. .
It came literally right after the same loop applying the calculation result.. yet it has different value than expected?!
Why, ho why? And how? 
I think the forces that be are preventing me from finding the truth! 
That's the only logical explanation I can come up with!
Need exorcism ASAP!    
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Use the debugger? The VS one can break when a variable is modified, so if a value is changing and you don't expect that it may give you an idea where it is being changed from?
Or fill your PC with Pea Soup[^] and have a ball!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There is still the Pea Soup option! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's the only solution! I fear!
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333 is half of the mark of the beast. there's your problem right there. Your code is summoning demons.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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OMG! it is so obvious now that you say it!
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Super Lloyd wrote: it describe 2 potatoes intersection
That explains it.
Your computer's got the wrong chips.
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