Is there a way to block or remove Twitter ads?

If you have experience with web programming, you can always write a script that automatically hides ads as they appear (you would need JavaScript or a related technology to make this work). Twitter decorates each promoted tweet with a unique class so it really just becomes a matter of:

a) Finding a way to run JavaScript alongside Twitter and

b) Determining what class is used to identify ads.

Here’s a list of classes Twitter uses to decorate a promoted tweet:

• tweet js-stream-tweet
• js-actionable-tweet
• js-profile-popup-actionable
• original-tweet
• js-original-tweet
• promoted-tweet
• has-cards
• has-content
• presented
• scribed
• focus

Of these, promoted-tweet is what you want to manipulate. With jQuery, you can write something like this: $(“.promoted-tweet”).hide();

To run custom JavaScript alongside any website, refer to this Chrome plugin: Custom JavaScript for websites (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/custom-javascript-for-web/poakhlngfciodnhlhhgnaaelnpjljija?hl=en)

Facebook

1. var Frequency = 1000; 
2.  
3. BeginsWith = function(Needle, Haystack) 
4. { 
5. return (Haystack.substr(0, Needle.length) == Needle); 
6. } 
7.  
8. function Closest(Element, Tag, Attribute, AttributeValue)  
9. { 
10. Tag = Tag.toUpperCase(); 
11. do  
12. { 
13. if (Element.nodeName === Tag && Element.hasAttribute(Attribute) && BeginsWith(AttributeValue, Element.getAttribute(Attribute))) 
14. { 
15. return Element; 
16. } 
17. }  
18. while (Element = Element.parentNode); 
19. return null; 
20. } 
21.  
22. function HideSponsored() 
23. { 
24. var Elements = document.getElementsByClassName("_m8c"); 
25. if (Elements !== null) 
26. { 
27. for (var i = 0, Length = Elements.length; i < Length; i++) 
28. { 
29. if (Elements[i].tagName == 'A' && Elements[i].innerHTML == 'Sponsored') 
30. { 
31. var Parent = Closest(Elements[i], 'div', 'data-referrer', 'hyperfeed_story_id_'); 
32. if (Parent !== null) 
33. { 
34. Parent.parentNode.removeChild(Parent); 
35. } 
36. } 
37. } 
38. } 
39. } 
40.  
41. setInterval(HideSponsored, Frequency); 

Twitter

1. var Frequency = 500; 
2.  
3. function Closest(Element, Tag)  
4. { 
5. Tag = Tag.toUpperCase(); 
6. do  
7. { 
8. if (Element.nodeName === Tag) 
9. { 
10. return Element; 
11. } 
12. }  
13. while (Element = Element.parentNode); 
14. return null; 
15. } 
16.  
17. function HidePromotedTweets() 
18. { 
19. var Tweets = document.getElementsByClassName("promoted-tweet"); 
20. if (Tweets !== null) 
21. { 
22. for (var i = 0, Length = Tweets.length; i < Length; i++) 
23. { 
24. if (Tweets[i] !== null) 
25. { 
26. var Tweet = Closest(Tweets[i], "li"); 
27. if (Tweet !== null) 
28. { 
29. Tweet.parentNode.removeChild(Tweet); 
30. } 
31. } 
32. } 
33. } 
34. } 
35.  
36. setInterval(HidePromotedTweets, Frequency); 

Note

• Makes sure jQuery is disabled! Enabling it will cause more issues than it solves.
• Facebook algorithm runs once per second; decreasing this may increasingly slow things down.
• Twitter algorithm can run more often as the performance hits aren’t as bad.