No certificate expiration to deal with.

Also a good reason to use .onion.

Because concerning myself with security in this case is absurd.

The ubiquitous concern with security is absurd.

But the OP was concerned with security, namely that someone was intercepting his http connection and messing with it.

I was/am more concerned with functionality and the fact that what they're doing should be illegal. The Comcast MITM attack I experienced literally broke the functionality of the steam browser (~2015).

This decision ultimately belongs website owners. OP can unilaterally block connections to those sites, but this breaks/blocks those websites in a manner that is as bad as Comcast injecting ads.