It's amazing to me that there are still people out there who don't use adblockers in 2020. The web is unbelievably painful to browse without an adblocker.
I've also gotten into the habit of using uBlock Origin to kill all of the "Accept Cookies" type popups without ever clicking accept. Those are just as intolerable as ads to me.
I think most users never even heard about Adblockers or how it will improve their web browsing life considerably. It's the thing people never know they want.
On other story, I give my junior advice that she should install adblocker on her browser, her reply was: "How can I watch the commercial then?" Umm...OKAY.
My assumption:
1) people just didn't know better or
2) they actually loves those flashing ads all along
https://w3c.github.io/ColorWeb-CG/