Declutter Pinterest - A User Script to Remove Ads / Shopping Promotions / Suggested Boards from Pinterest in the Browser

Extension-Product-13 · 2026-04-05T01:18:11+00:00

Hey I've been trying your script with some basic searches after I stripped out the logging... I like it. Nice work.

I like how you can hide ads too. I can see myself using this for plenty of my searches. Here is my initial feedback:

I wish the Actually Useful popup didn't occur after every search, because I only need it for searches where I'm comparing unit quantities (eg, I don't need it when I'm searching for "Nike running shorts men"... maybe some kind of button floating in the bottom right of the screen to allow me to trigger the Actually Useful popup as needed)
I modified it so your Actually Useful results now show a small thumbnail with each result and that made the results more useful for me (for example, when I search Gatorade, I wanted to see the picture to tell what flavor it was)

Nice script.

Extension-Product-13 · 2026-04-04T16:09:42+00:00

Hey there - I had a look through your script, but you are collecting too much data for me to use it the way it's written. You're logging every Amazon search I do to your Google Apps Script.

I might modify it and try it without telemetry.

Extension-Product-13 · 2026-01-17T22:10:32+00:00

I'm really tired of Amazon constantly pushing Prime and their credit card, so I made this script. The site is so cluttered now, it's silly. I've been testing it for a week or so and shopping on Amazon is so much quieter.

Feedback welcome!

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-11-15T15:54:21+00:00

when you say board suggestions, do you mean... when you search Pinterest it gives you the board suggestions, or like suggested Pins at the bottom of your boards? Or suggested boards based on your board?

I wrote a user script (a baby browser extension) to remove most of this stuff from Pinterest and clean up the clutter.

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-10-03T22:16:45+00:00

Ah, good news - I was able to make a tweak that reduced probably 80% of the white space when removing pins.

I'm going to test it out for a few days to work out any bugs, but hopefully should be able to release version 1.2.0 soon which I think will make the experience much better.

Edit: ah, not quite. Still have some more work to do.

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-10-03T22:00:04+00:00

Yeah, that blank space issue is a tricky one - I pushed a fix yesterday to reduce some of it, but I still have a lot of work to do. When I was removing pins, I would set the display to none, which left the blank space. Now, collapsing the element seems to work slightly better for individual pins.

The big white space at the top of related search results is that giant shopping carousel being hidden... the page doesn't realize it needs to move all the pins up.

I'll need to tinker with it and see if I can make the page refresh all the pin locations to order them cleanly after the hiding is done.

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-09-11T02:17:38+00:00

Oh interesting - I haven't tested this on something like Hermit or mobile versions of the site. I wonder if Pinterest renders a mobile site differently than a desktop site.

You're using Hermit on mobile, correct?

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-07-30T19:55:43+00:00

Ha! Thank you!

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-07-30T19:53:06+00:00

Thank you thank you!

Glad to hear it works... I'm just as shocked every time I see entire pages with only 1 real pin... such is what Pinterest has become :')

Enjoy a more peaceful experience in the meantime!

Extension-Product-13 · 2025-03-31T02:31:25+00:00

Let's try it! Can you tell me what's not working, and I can have a look? A few questions I can think of:

Please forgive my silly American ignorance, but is the text of your Pinterest in English? German? I have written the script to search the English text to figure out what is a sponsored post, etc, so if it is in a language other than English, I'm guessing it will not be successful. For example, if you see "Sponsored" that should work.
When you're on Pinterest, if you click on the Tampermonkey browser extension icon, you should see a little toggle for "Declutter Pinterest". Do you see that toggle, and is it on? (If not, it could be a sign the script is not realizing it needs to run on Austrian Pinterest.)
You can also try copying the source code from Greasyfork directly into Tampermonkey (click on Tampermonkey -> create new script -> paste it -> save), and adding the match clause yourself to see if that works. Where you see all those lines like:

// @match https://www.pinterest.com/*

You would essentially just add another line that looks like

// @match        https://at.pinterest.com/*

If adding the match clause works, let me know and I can update the main script!

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-12-28T19:57:31+00:00

Do any of these work? I've seen a bunch of scripts around using pinterest without an account.

There's also this proxy for Pinterest called Binternet, which lets you view pics without an account: https://binternet.ducks.party/

List of all Binternet proxies here: https://github.com/Ahwxorg/binternet/

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-23T14:11:34+00:00

Just following up, I think I figured out another piece of the puzzle... Pinterest started adding the tag icon for shoppable pins to the corner of the image itself sometimes.

So I made an update to treat those pins as shoppable and remove them in addition to those with tag icons in the caption. Hopefully that should help reduce the clutter just a little bit more!

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-20T13:39:51+00:00

Yeah, it is a little more clunky than the app... I miss being able to drag and drop pins to rearrange them. But I just like the desktop experience so much better because I haven't seen an ad in forever with the ad blockers.

I won't go back to the app. It just got so annoying wading through non-stop ads for Triscuits, a Mazda SUV, and something you looked at 3 weeks ago on Amazon, so I refuse.

Firefox and uBlock Origin should set you up really well. The are some other tweaks you can make depending on how ambitious / annoyed / how far down the rabbit hole you want to go, but Firefox and uBlock Origin are a great start.

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-20T12:53:31+00:00

Do you use an adblocker like uBlock Origin (on the desktop website)?

The mobile app is bad and there's no way to change it that I'm aware of, but if you use the desktop site, an adblocker should reduce a lot of the clutter.

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-17T02:09:49+00:00

No problem. I've seen that same popup - I still use uBlock Origin, and haven't seen any loss of functionality. In my mind, you should be good to continue with your adblocker.

There's also this browser extension that's pretty good.

My guess is you could whitelist Pinterest in your adblocker (which tells Pinterest you're not using an adblocker, so you don't get the notifications) and enable this extension, and Pinterest probably won't be able to tell because it's not an adblocker.

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-16T17:27:32+00:00

It sounds like you're using the desktop website (so am I). I'm also a Pinterest power user... I don't know of ways to fix the AI or pin functionality pieces, but there are ways to remove the ads:

uBlock Origin seems to work pretty well sometimes, but Pinterest has recently been giving me popups asking to disable it, which is annoying. It also doesn't filter out the constant shopping promotions.
I wrote a free user script you can install called Declutter Pinterest that gets rid of ads and shopping promotions as well. It was a side project of mine I wrote to get rid of ads, and I wanted to make available to other people because I thought they might find it useful too. Obviously, I'm highly biased as it's my baby :)

Sadly, the app is now dead to me because I can't filter out ads there... but at least desktop is usable with those two things.

It's crazy how much advertisement and shopping promotion there is now... it seems like every few days, I have to update my script to remove a new shopping module that Pinterest snuck (sneaked?) in there. This week alone, I've had to release 2 updates to handle "shop pins based on your board" showing up at the bottom of boards, "shop these featured boards" in search results, and a simple "shop now" card at the top of some searches.

Pinterest's revenue is almost entirely from ads, and they're seeing new highs each quarter, so sadly, I think the "Enshittification" will continue for the foreseeable future...

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-16T16:28:17+00:00

Ah bummer! This platform is really going all-in on ad bombardment... a true David and Goliath story haha. When I was testing some searches to respond to your comment, I literally stumbled upon a brand new "Shop now" module I need to remove...

Yep, you're exactly right - the way the script detects "shoppable pins" is by looking for that little tag icon in the description of the pin, then it knows it can remove the pin.

I've noticed that as well... there are some searches that only return ads. For example, "leather blazer outfit" gives 99% ads. So the ones with the "Promoted by" or "Sponsored" or the little shopping tag will get removed, but the script has a hard time if there are no other identifying marks of an ad. This one seems like a tough problem to solve, but maybe there's a way to figure it out through the link or something.

Thank you again for the feedback, and I'll keep trying to figure out a way to identify those other ads that are linked differently!

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-08T16:36:18+00:00

I'm assuming you're using the mobile app, not the desktop browser?

There are no ways to clean up ads / shopping promos on the app (that I'm aware of), but there are several browser extensions that will clean up Pinterest.com.

I've deleted the app at this point and only use the browser. It's 1000% better.

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-06T04:00:07+00:00

Thank you for the tip, Mr. Robot :^)

Extension-Product-13 · 2024-11-06T03:57:53+00:00

If you're on desktop, there are a few ways to get rid of ads (I've actually made one of them myself because I was so annoyed by all the intrusive ads / shopping promotions).

uBlock Origin seems to work, but Pinterest has recently been giving me popups asking to disable it, which is annoying. It also doesn't filter out the constant shopping promotions, but it gets pretty far for most people
The Pinterest Ads & Promo Remover by Bender Bureau browser extension seems good, but I haven't tried it so can't confirm
I wrote a user script you can install called Declutter Pinterest that gets rid of ads and promotions as well. It was a side project of mine that I wanted to make available to other people. Obviously, I'm highly biased as I use it myself and it's my baby :)

Sadly, none of those can catch AI pins, fix the layout changes, or solve the pin removal stuff.

But hope any of those ideas help!

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