I can't see how people tolerate Twitter's ad policy, I don't even use an ad blocker (I white list JS) but I find Twitter ads too annoying to use the service.
Doing so also blocks the brands from showing up as ads, in addition to blocking them from organically appearing in your timeline. It's a strategy that works well, imo.
I do this for ads that are irrelevant to my interests (and most ads they show me are). Saves my time in the future as a lot of Twitter ads are repeats, and sends them a message that their guesses at what's relevant to me are off.
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I can't see how people tolerate Twitter's ad policy, I don't even use an ad blocker (I white list JS) but I find Twitter ads too annoying to use the service.
I barely notice them. Let's face it, there are considerably worse ad implementations out there - auto play video, taking over the screen...
Someone suggested to report every 'promoted tweet' (ad) as unwanted/spam. That's what I do currently.
That sounds like a good way to have your reports ignored by the system.
Doing so also blocks the brands from showing up as ads, in addition to blocking them from organically appearing in your timeline. It's a strategy that works well, imo.
I do this for ads that are irrelevant to my interests (and most ads they show me are). Saves my time in the future as a lot of Twitter ads are repeats, and sends them a message that their guesses at what's relevant to me are off.
I don't consider it that annoying, given that I follow several people anyway.
Use an alternative service. Problem solved.
What alternative service? Twitter is a social network, it only has value because of the sheer number of people that use it.