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With Facebook they can serve ads as if they were a regular story, there wouldn't be anything structural, not even image names/sizes, to go on then.

Unless they start misrepresenting stories, you could setup a plugin that keeps track of your friends and only display content from them.

> With Facebook they can serve ads as if they were a regular story

With Facebook's paid reach, "regular stories" are often paid ads to start with.