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How to stop this Facebook feature?

The right side arrow leads to many of them. I clicked on "hide" yesterday and it is back today. How to stop that one specific notification?
Which is not a notification but some way that FB tries to create friends for people = nuisance.
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I added the Chrome extension and closed the browser and opened again and went to FB and it is still there. That strip is called "people you may know" and not "friends suggested." And from what I know about FB which is nothing good, it's likely that people you may know and friends suggested may be two different thing.
You cannot remove all this and the more you use FB the more you will see (based on my experience with FB)
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When I click on "see all friend suggestions" it takes me to only the 22 that have requested to be FB friends. I'm fine with that list.
The other strip across the page contains people in other countries and a few are marked as "1+ mutual friend" so it is a mix of strangers mostly and a few who are friends with my friends.

I tried x ing out the ones I do not know and kept the ones who know a friend of mine and that failed. When the series of photos ended it started over and the ones I had X'd out were back.
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From the top link given by Dirk was this three year old fix:
I clicked on "show all people you may know", then clicked the remove ie X in the corner of each person suggested until there were no more left. Have to keep clicking 'show more' to get all of them. Took a few minutes but seems to have worked.

I'm not finding "show all people you may know."
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That on the Facebook page does not look like an ad.

I see ads from various companies on other parts of the page or on my time line where I have liked some food company.
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AdBlock can block any section of a website irrespective if it is an ad, you just need to configure it
http://somup.com/cbjVYFVXQY
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Have the 500 points been changed to 1000?   Then new members can rise to the top twice as fast as before.
No. the "grades" have been lowered so we cannot collect as many points, so on this particular question, I got a grade of low"
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oops. sorry. I thought I saw A-B-C.