It's not about blocking ads, but blocking tracking. If you connect to internet you are being tracked even though you block known tracking URLs.

e.g. Hacker news uses no tracking url but uses Cloudflare which tracks the user across sites for things like bot detection.

You are not powerless.

	▲	obsequiosity 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The prominent link there not protected by https redirects to the wikipedia page for "uphill battle"...who and why about that redirect is the question being posed perhaps but how alarmist do we want to be?
	▲	michaelsshaw 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I love your URL!