Strangely enough, you can actually block the corporate accounts associated with sponsored tweets. I used to do this consistently on general principle before ultimately canceling my account. After awhile, the ads I did see (from as-of-yet unblocked accounts) became more and more exotic. It seemed like they were less frequent as well, though I could definitely have been imagining that.

Use Tweetbot if you're on iOS. $6 a year for a chronological feed that never tries to switch you to the algorithmic feed and no ads.

The last time the Twitter iOS app tried to force me into the algorithmic feed it was the straw that broke the camels back and I switched.

Twitter hasn't released public APIs for many of their new features (such as group DMs), meaning Tweetbot lacks support for them.

Huh, really? I have tweetbot for Mac. I thought I looked and it didn't block promoted tweets on iOS anymore. I'll check it out thanks.