> you are knowingly using a piece of software that has, and has always had, the default behaviour of autoloading remote resource links it finds in HTML

Actually, most people don’t actually know that. And why would they? Why should they get bogged down in such technical minutiae? Why require users to play tedious uBlock whack-a-mole of enabling resources from external domains until the website starts working in order to have any semblance of privacy?

Just because something is common doesn’t make it right.