Better Likes

Better Likes vs F.B. Purity

F.B. Purity's job is to strip noise out of Facebook — including the reaction bar. Better Likes's job is to add richer reactions, and to do it everywhere on the web. They solve opposite problems.

TL;DR

F.B. Purity is the veteran Facebook cleanup tool. According to the developer's site it's at version 38.4.0 as of January 2026 — actively maintained, with around 100,000 Chrome users and 225,000 Opera downloads listed in the public store cards. Its feature list explicitly includes hiding the Reactions bar.

Better Likes does the opposite: it gives you a full emoji palette where the platform offers fewer, none, or only one ("Like"). It works everywhere on the web — same picker, same counts, on every supported site. Reading counts is anonymous; submitting your own requires a one-time email verification, so the numbers reflect verified people rather than throwaway browser profiles.

You can run both extensions side-by-side. If you already use F.B. Purity to declutter Facebook and you also want richer reactions on GitHub or Amazon, Better Likes covers what F.B. Purity is not trying to solve.

At a glance

Better Likes F.B. Purity
Primary job Bring emoji reactions to every site on the web Clean up Facebook (filter, hide sponsored content, hide reactions bar)
Sites covered A growing list — Facebook, GitHub, Amazon today, more on the way Facebook only
Number of reactions Full emoji palette Hides reactions, doesn't add any
Source code Public on GitHub, GPL-3 Closed source. Per the Opera Add-ons card it's "Copyright 2026 st333v"; Chrome Web Store doesn't disclose a public repo.
How "you" are identified Irreversible hash of your email — one real person = one account Not applicable — F.B. Purity doesn't track or aggregate reactions
Server-side state Reaction counts, salted IP hash for rate-limiting None — all work happens in the browser DOM
Last public release Released continuously from GitHub v38.4.0, listed 2026-01-15 on the developer's site
Works alongside the other? Yes — different surfaces, no conflict Yes — different surfaces, no conflict

Where Better Likes is the better choice

1. You want more reactions, not fewer

Facebook's native palette is six reactions; GitHub repos only have "Star"; Amazon products only have "Buy". F.B. Purity's relevant feature in this space is "hide the Reactions bar" — it makes the page quieter, which is a perfectly valid goal, but it doesn't help if what you want is a richer expressive vocabulary on a piece of content.

Better Likes's full emoji palette works the same way across every supported site. Same picker, same counts, same history view.

2. You want something that works outside Facebook

F.B. Purity does Facebook. That's its whole identity (it's in the name). If you spend time on GitHub or Amazon and want reactions there too, F.B. Purity has nothing to offer there — by design.

Better Likes treats all three sites with the same model. Anything we improve about reactions improves them everywhere at once.

3. You want to see the source

F.B. Purity has been around for years and many people trust it — but the extension itself is not open source. The Opera Add-ons listing labels it "Copyright 2026 st333v" and the Chrome Web Store snapshot doesn't link a public repo. You install what the developer ships.

Better Likes is GPL-3 and lives on GitHub. You can read the worker, the extension, the landing page, the migrations — every line of it.

4. You want to know what gets sent to a server

F.B. Purity is a pure in-page tool — there's no server to talk to, which is actually a good privacy property. We don't claim otherwise.

Better Likes does have a server (it has to, to count reactions across users), and we publish exactly what gets sent: the userId hash, the reaction emoji, the public URL of the target, and a salted day-rotated IP hash for rate-limiting. Email is sent only during sign-in, never persisted. The full policy is on the privacy page.

Which one should you pick?

Pick F.B. Purity if your problem is "Facebook is too loud" and you want fewer ads, fewer sponsored posts, and a quieter reactions bar. It's specifically good at that and many people swear by it.

Pick Better Likes if your problem is the opposite: "Like" isn't enough, GitHub stars aren't enough, and you want a consistent reaction layer on every page you spend time on.

Run both if you want both. They don't conflict.

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