My excuse is that the design is close to a decade old by now, and that back in the days, there were enough pixels between the two as the resolution was much low

My excuse is that the design is close to a decade old by now, and that back in the days, there were enough pixels between the two as the resolution was much lower. I don't need ads anymore, so I disabled them site-wide; that's the best way to fix the issue I figure.