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That's really nuts to me when I run into it in the wild. It's so easy and such a qol upgrade. I know a guy who self hosts a bunch of services, programming job, but does not use any ad block at all. He's on the computer all day. Just looking at ads.
I don't think you're wrong, but I do think that if everyone thought that, they would be doing it already.
I have routinely tried to get friends and family to use ad-blockers and they simply don't care enough to even attempt to download one.
I occasionally accidentally open the fandom page for a game on Chrome with no ad block (which I keep around for Google apps) and it's unusable. Go there on Firefox with ublock origin and it's fine
And there's worse sites than that
Download sites for things like Minecraft mods have several competing "download" buttons without ad block
It's nuts people might accept these, let alone want them