I am pretty sure that there is a team of engineers whose job is to office obfuscate ads on Instagram and Facebook.

Surely these people can find something more beneficial to society to work on, such as selling heroin to middle schoolers.

Money is money. Few of the jobs I’ve worked have had a positive impact on society.

From js, simply find all <a> tags that have a url containing "utm_medium=paid". Once you get them, for each tag element go up parentElements until the parent is <div role="feed">. Then remove the child.

Just block the entire feed and go directly to the profile pages of users you want updates from.