I think the problem is that you have one population of readers who go with the ad blocker, and they don't know that they are about to send everyone to this eyes

I think the problem is that you have one population of readers who go with the ad blocker, and they don't know that they are about to send everyone to this eyesore. The other population is people who don't use ad blockers, but also who would never visit this site, because it's an eyesore. For that second population: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs The overwhelming remainder of people are in neither: they don't block ads, and they don't care. And their TVs are on all day long.