ever found that to be particularly effective? I put a concerted effort into doing that for a week... every advert.

they started returning after a while.

I don't know if this will work on Twitter, but on Instagram, I decided to deal with annoying ads by liking all ads from reMarkable, a device I already own and whose ads at least look visually nice, and reporting all other ads. So far I only ever see rM ads and I hope it stays that way. Which it might as long as reMarkable runs ads on Instagram.

Aren't you hurting reMarkable with that behaviour? You're not going to buy from them and they pay to have those ads shown to you.