[alexman]

This is similar to what I did too but the newsfeed is still polluted with lots of "likes" (e.g. liking a page, liking a post) by my close friends which are irrelevant to me 99% of the time. I wish Facebook let me hide "likes" from my friends.

[provost]

If it really bothers you, a simple Greasemonkey script can fix that.

[mattnewton]

Or just don't visit the newsfeed ever.