The least people can do is allow those two non-intrusive ads below the donate button to give orteil a bit of revenue for the game he made that everyone here obviously enjoys
And I don't see how removing a background is "beyond helpful"
Websites get no money at all from people who don't click on ads. Limited to fullscreen ads, but it's not the case.
Unless you don't have AdBlock and you are clicking those ads like crazy wanting to give someone less than a cent*, you shouldn't dismiss and scold people who have AdBlock in that manner, as you give a invalid point.
Also not everyone likes to have grandmas as backgrounds. Specially on the old version.
*Depends.