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Ok, so what I see is same as you. The column to the right, whether the ad is visible or not, is there all the time. To get the space you sacrifice the menu bar. But the menu bar is how I navigate the site. I use "New Posts" every time I come here, and "Find Threads" at least a couple of times a week, maybe more. So, that's not a tradeoff I'm willing to make. And frankly, the ad is not offensive to me like I guess it is to others. It's an ad, and I can ignore it just like any other ad. But the space is not recoverable, so I just let it be there.
Oh the top bar I mentioned was just an example of killing something to reclaim space. I wouldn't normally do that. I don't have any ads on the top like the OP showed, even with AdGuard off. It may be a redesign of the site since then. It may well be that that bar could be blocked but still leave a blank space like on the right, I'm not sure. That's what I get for coming in late to a conversation. But normally, if I manually kill an ad element and see a "white" block in its place, I can kill that block and reclaim it entirely. Usually it just requires tweaking of the original block by "expanding" how much it takes away.