Social networks are becoming increasingly entangled in our daily lives. Social media pages are viewed by millions of people every day. And it’s logical that not everyone wants to show the list of their friends and subscribers. In such a situation, many people ask the question: how to hide VKontakte subscribers? We'll talk about this below.
How to quickly and correctly hide VKontakte subscribers
An easy way to hide your subscriptions to VKontakte groups
Sometimes you don't want your friends and family to see what your interests are on a social network. If you do not want to show others your subscriptions to various thematic VKontakte groups, it is possible to hide this information from your subscribers.
To do this, you need to go to the “Settings” section by clicking on the avatar in the upper right corner of the page, then select the “privacy” subsection and the “who sees the list of my groups” tab. There are several privacy options from which you can choose what suits you.
For example, when you select the “only me” option, you make the list of groups invisible to other users. In addition, you can make it visible only to friends or to all your subscribers except certain people.
But you need to keep in mind that a number of communities that are public are not included in the number of groups that can be hidden. That is, the privacy settings described above do not apply to them. These publics are located on the page on the right side under the “online friends” section.
If you do not want certain communities to be displayed there, you will have to unsubscribe from them.
An effective method to hide subscriptions in VK
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How to hide subscribers in VK? This question often interests some users of the popular Russian-language network. The reasons for this can be very different. Each person has their own, you don’t have to understand it. But, probably, all users know that by default, every member of the social network sees the people with whom you are friends. And, of course, subscribers, as well as those to whom you are subscribed and will learn news about this. Let's look at methods for hiding subscribers, both from a PC and from a phone.
Methods to hide subscribers on VK
There are ways to hide followers, regardless of whether you use a computer or smartphone to communicate on social networks. Many methods are often advertised, and they are paid. Don't believe it. Now we will tell you in detail about free methods.
From a mobile phone
Most often, social network users who have an account in VK visit it from a mobile phone. It is very comfortable. You can block the ability to access subscribers from your device. But for this you definitely need to download and install a mobile browser. After this, you need:
- Launch the browser and log in to the VK mobile version.
- Next, you need to click on the button on the right in the form of three lines and then select “Settings”. After that, go to “Privacy”.
- Now find the items that you see in the screenshot and set the values as you need. If you want, you can also make your profile private.
Please note that the VK mobile application does not have such settings.
From computer
If you need to hide your own acquaintances in VK on your computer, then you need to do the following procedure:
- Log in to your VKontakte page.
- Click on your personal avatar in the top right. A menu will appear, click on “Settings”.
- Next, you need to visit the tab called “Privacy”.
- In the settings window called “My Page,” click on the option where it says “Who is visible in the list of subscriptions.” Then click on “All friends” (All except).
- The system will show you a list of followers. You need to set marks on those users that you do not want to show on your own page. You cannot select more than 30 people.
- Now click on the “Save” button.
Your guests and visitors will no longer be able to see the users you tagged.
Also, in order to hide subscribers, you can use another good option. You will need to use a special script. To do this you need:
- You need to open the Google Chrome browser on your PC.
- Log in to the VK website and click on the “Friends” item.
- On the page, in any empty space, right-click, and then in the context menu, find the “View code” item.
- A window designed for developers will appear where you need to select Console.
- Next, at the top left corner, you need to click on the icon with a crossed out circle. The text you don't need will disappear from the console.
- Now you need to visit pastebin.com.
- You need to make a copy of the script text that is posted there using the browser's "Copy" function.
- Now return to the page where you have opened the mode for VKontakte developers.
- Paste a copy of the script into the console by clicking “Paste” and pressing Enter.
- You will see a line with the following indefined.
- Enter itr(30,true) in the console and click the Enter button.
In the column on the left of “VK” you will see not “My Page”, but a counter. It will count the number of subscribers. When the number reaches the number of your friends, reload the page. Now access to all followers will be closed.
Possible problems
You may have a problem that you hid those people you don’t want to show, but all your subscribers suddenly disappeared. This usually happens if you cheated them using any services on the network. The VK administration finds out such information very quickly. Do not do that. Also, hidden followers may disappear later. The reason may be that they violated the rules of a community or some group and were blocked.
Step-by-step instructions on how to remove VKontakte subscribers using a blacklist
Many would not mind hiding the list of ordinary friends, but today VKontakte does not provide such an opportunity, and in no way. It is impossible to classify your subscribers. To prevent a person from being visible on your friends list, you can block him, which will automatically remove him from the list. Accordingly, it will not be visible on your page.
However, if you still want the blocked user to still be able to view your page, you need to remove him from the blacklist (people who have been blocked are automatically included there). The blacklist and its contents are located in the “Settings” section.
Who are subscribers and how to hide their names from other users
A VK subscriber is a social user. VKontakte network, which sees the news and events of the person whose page he is subscribed to.
Subscriptions are the pages from which you receive news.
The status of a subscriber is the one who:
- applied for friendship but was rejected;
- was added to the list of friends, but was deleted;
- is a friend to this day.
We will find out below how to hide those who have subscribed to your news on the VKontakte social network. It is more difficult to decide what exactly needs to be achieved.
- You can completely delete people subscribed to a page, and then none of them will be able to see the news and events of the person they were subscribed to anymore. Thus, other users, coming to you to look at information, will not see any of the previously subscribed ones.
- You don't have to get rid of people who receive news from you, but simply hide them from other users.
Blocking subscribers in groups and publics
If you are the head of your own community, you will have to constantly monitor the state of the group, the activity of subscribers and their composition. In any group there are always dead souls who do not participate in its life, and the longer the community exists, the more of them there are. To improve statistics, it is best to exclude such people from subscribers or block them, especially since there is no way to hide them.
By excluding people, you don't have to use blocking. The “remove from community” button is available to administrators, editors, and moderators; it is located to the right of each user in the list of community members.
To open this list, you need to go to the “Management” tab in the menu on the right and select the “Participants” section.
You can search for users using a special search bar, which is located at the top of the page. In addition, you can find the right people by their avatars.
Insert interactive mentions of users and communities into posts
When typing text for a new post or comment, you can link to community or user pages. This is why there are mentions - special links that appear as text instead of an unreadable URL. Moreover, after hovering the cursor over such a link, a preview pops up with information about the landing page. Moreover, the user who is mentioned receives an instant notification about it.
Most often, mentions are used to ensure that the right people do not miss a particular post. For example, public congratulations. Or simply for beautiful text design with links to users and communities.
How to insert a mention
- Go to the new post or comment editor.
- Enter @ and immediately, without a space, insert all the characters that appear after the https://vk.com/ fragment in the landing page URL. For example, a link to Pavel Durov’s profile with the address https://vk.com/durov in the editor will look like this: @durov.
- Click on the desired person or community in the drop-down list.
- If you wish, you can edit the person's name or community name, which appears in brackets.
- Now the link is ready, the entry can be published.
Is it possible to see other people's hidden VKontakte subscriptions?
If a person has hidden his subscriptions to groups, he will not be able to see them. However, there are illegal and unsafe methods for the most curious user. For example, you can use third-party programs and scripts that can cause your account data to leak, as well as infect your computer with viruses.
In addition, you can scroll through the subscribers of groups that the person you are interested in could theoretically be subscribed to. To simplify the task, you can use the search among participants (that’s what it’s called) by simply entering the user name.
You can also see who liked the posts of the community - perhaps the person you are looking for will be among these people. This will mean that he can be a participant.
Since it is not difficult to hide subscriptions to groups on VKontakte, you can do this and calmly read news that interests you, without worrying about your subscribers finding out about it.
Why hide friends?
The reasons pushing VK page owners to take such a step can be very different:
- the desire to avoid scandals with your significant other when adding former classmates or old friends as friends;
- the person holds a high management position or is a public figure, and therefore does not want to “shine” on the Internet;
- the position held does not allow the user to have a VK page, and the only way not to get caught is to be a secret friend.
The social network VKontakte provides the ability to hide a certain number of profiles included in the friends list. The service's policy regarding user privacy has changed several times. At the dawn of VK, you could hide absolutely all your friends. Then a restriction was introduced - only up to 15 people were allowed to be hidden. And only later the maximum number of “invisible” friends was raised to 30, and this limit remains to this day.
Deleting subscriptions
Of course, the most reliable way to get rid of a block is to delete the public pages completely. This is easy to do if there are few pages - you just need to go to the block and click the “Unsubscribe” button under each label.
Attention!
If there are too many public pages, you can use auxiliary software, for example, the VKBot program. You can download only on the official website. Both free and paid versions with advanced functionality are available.
After all publics are removed from the list, the block itself will disappear; it simply will not be visible - neither to the user himself, nor to his friends and subscribers. Albums with photographs will be located immediately below the friends block.
Hide information about interesting pages
The “Interesting Pages” section is an association of subscribers in the form of public pages. The name “public” comes from the English phrase “Public Page”, which means “Public Page”; accordingly, the format of the public does not imply its hiding. But there is an option through which you can remove interesting pages.
Via computer
The method of hiding interesting pages from everyone is that you formally unsubscribe from the public, but you can monitor its activities in bookmarks. To do this, you first need to enable the “Bookmarks” item as follows:
- Enter the “Settings” menu and select “General”.
- In the list that opens, click on “Customize the display of menu items.”
- In the “Basic” sub-item, mark the required line, namely “Bookmarks”, and confirm by clicking on “Save”.
Cheating VKontakte subscribers Now go directly to the public pages and select the one you want to hide. For this:
- Go to the “Interesting Pages” section.
- Select the required public from the list by clicking on it.
- A symbol in the form of 3 dots will appear below the community name. Click on it.
- A submenu will appear. Check the “Receive notifications” and “Add to bookmarks” items.
- You can “part with” the public by clicking on “Unsubscribe”.
When viewing the page, no one will see a subscription to the “deleted” community. At the same time, the owner of the account will be able to access it through bookmarks. To do this, you need to go to “My Bookmarks”, previously activated at the beginning, and click on the “Links” item. Among all the links, select the desired community.
The inconvenience with this setup will be that the public news will not be displayed in the feed and you will need to bookmark it.
Via smartphone
To hide the list of interesting pages via your phone, you need to do the following:
- Select the required public or profile in the “Interesting Pages” section and tap on it.
- A profile or community window will appear with an icon with three dots at the top. Tap on it.
- A window with settings will appear. Enable “Notify about posts” and “Add to bookmarks”. Initially, it should be “Do not notify” and “Delete”.
- You can now delete a user profile or community.
To view deleted publics or a person’s profile, you need to do the following:
- open bookmarks on the VK main page;
- if you need to find the hidden account of another user, then tap on the “People” item;
- To find a community, select “Links”.
These are simple ways to increase your account privacy and hide details of your personal preferences while staying connected to your community. This will protect you from unnecessary curiosity from strangers and ill-wishers.
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Editing interesting pages and subscriptions
For personal convenience, and in order not to clutter your feed with unnecessary news, you can edit interesting pages and subscriptions so that only the most relevant ones remain. So, let's look at how this is done.
Editing subscriptions
To begin with, to understand the mechanism for managing subscriptions, it is important to understand what they are. These are the profiles that a person is subscribed to. They can be deleted or viewed in the friends menu, or more precisely, in the “Outgoing Requests” tab. These are people whose news you have subscribed to, although in fact they are not friends. To remove any news, you can simply unsubscribe by clicking on the button next to your profile name.
Editing interesting pages
Making changes to your list of favorite sites is just as easy. Today, all public pages to which the user is subscribed are sorted by date. That is, the first ones are always the ones you became interested in recently. How can I change anything on this list?
Method 1: Hide subscribers
Today, you can hide VKontakte subscribers, that is, those people who are included in the “Subscribers” section, in one single way - deletion. Moreover, we have already discussed this process in great detail earlier in the corresponding article on our website.
If you still have difficulty understanding this process, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the VK blacklist, which is the main tool for deleting and, therefore, hiding subscribers.
Why are VK subscribers not visible?
The most obvious and at the same time the first reason is the lack of users among subscribers. In such a situation, there will not be a single user on the corresponding tab of the “Friends” section. The “Subscribers” widget, which displays the number of people in this list and allows you to view them through a special window, will also disappear from the user page.
If you were followed by a specific user and at some point disappeared from their followers, most likely the reason for this was that they voluntarily unsubscribed from your profile updates. This can only be found out by directly contacting the person with the question.
If the user is added to “Friends”, he will also disappear from the section in question.
Please note that automatic removal of users from subscribers does not occur even in cases where the user receives an “eternal” ban, regardless of the violation. That is, such an incident is, one way or another, connected with your actions or the manipulations of a remote person.
The absence of one or more people in subscribers may be a consequence of their inclusion in the “Black List”. This is the only possible option for deleting people without contacting the account owner.
In addition, if a subscriber himself has added you to the “Black List”, he will automatically unsubscribe from all your updates and disappear from the “Subscribers” list. Any manipulations with the Black List will only be effective if a person is added for a long time.
If you cannot find a person in the list of subscribers of another social network user, but you probably know about his presence, the reason is probably privacy settings. You can use the options on the Privacy page to hide both your friends and your followers.
In addition to everything discussed, subscribers can also disappear from a community with the “Public Page” type. This usually happens when a user is voluntarily unsubscribed or blocked by a configured public protection system.
This ends all possible factors why users are not displayed in “Subscribers”.
How to add a user to contacts
If only your page as the creator was the connection, and you deleted it in the first way, but still want to add another user with whom you could contact, then do the following.
Click or on the “Add contact...” button. - it will be if you do not have a single person in this block, or on the name of the block itself - this is if people are already indicated in your contacts.
If there were contacts in the group, then they will open in a window like this. Here you need to click on the button of the same name.
In the “Adding a contact person” window, you must provide a link to the profile of the person you want to add. The remaining fields: “Position”, “Telephone” and “E-mail” are optional
We return to the “Adding a contact person” window. Paste the copied link into the “VKontakte” line. Fill in the rest of the information and click “Save.”
The new person will be added to the group's main page.
