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Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.

Blocking significantly reduces the numbers, but they come back over time: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...

I wrote something very similar for reddit a while back using an extension called Tampermonkey. Reddit uses the same CSS classes on all their promoted content so if twitter does this same this could work.

Basically, you make an eventlistener on the scroll wheel and do document.getElementsByClassName('promoted-css-class-name'). Loop over the array of elements found and set the element style to 'display:none' for every element found every time you scroll.

Not the most efficient approach, but effective!

Oh, adding the event listener to the scroll is very clever. I was trying to do it "right" and using a MutationObserver to find when they added nodes to the document but this gets too convoluted fast.

Block the accounts as they come, and you stop seeing any of them.

In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.

This doesn’t work. I have blocked over 26k accounts and I still see ads. I don’t have blocked Apple or DuckDuckGo and most of the time I see those, but every single day I’m blocking more and more sponsored accounts because they keep appearing. You can’t block all of them.

Here’s my Block List. Not sure why it didn’t update for two months, maybe it doesn’t work anymore:

https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/BrCdgyZpXmLQ25akOwtgfR...

They come back, but it's significantly lower volume than without the block. I recently made a new account and was surprised by the volume.

Mine is 100% (I think) from blocking ads, if you want a second source: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...

(it's also updated 2 days ago)

Hitting not interested also eventually starts to work. On desktop ublock origin actually manages to strip them all out anyways.

For promoted, you'll need to use like a browser extension or something 3rd party to remove those. I would be VERY surprised if they gave native ways like this to mute the main income source of their platform (promoted tweets/ads). haha

They have the "See this less often" option if you click the options chevron within the promoted content. I'm convinced it's a placebo feature but...that's just me.

Yeah, that (placebo), or it could mean "see this less often" of this TYPE of ad. So more about the content than the actual ad. Again, I highly doubt they are just going to let users use the platform without any ads.

That's the more probable reality, yup. It's just signalling to me maybe it's time finally just bow out and get off this platform once and for all.

My assumption is that is only for the particular ad or company and that they will just show you ads from other places instead. More of a way to nudge the system into showing you more "relevant" promoted tweets than actually removing them.

You'll get less of that ad and more of another ad.

I use a slightly modified version of this UserScript in TamperMonkey: https://github.com/ZedNaught/blank-promoted-tweets

The change I've made is that I set the display of the promoted tweets to none, rather than setting their opacity to 0: article.setAttribute('style', 'display: none');

Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com. And optionally, the Better TweetDeck extention.

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