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I use utilities like unlock origin, a pihole, etc to block trackers and ad network requests without blocking literally all logic that can run on a page, which works great as an interim solution.
And the long term solution to advertising and tracking is legislation, not throwing out a computer's ability to compute.
Personally I think it's better if WWW moves beyond HTTP as a protocol
HTTP is really nice. We should move beyond HTML as a document format