Create and normalize. "What's one more site to denylist?"

...So, again, they can't be 'futile games of whack-a-mole', if they work, then?

I think it's more like taking the whack-a-mole bat and going and beating up people all around the arcade.

There are easily measures that will cause the closure of your small business if used against you personally that would not stop A drug dealer let alone all drug dealing.