So perhaps it's more like ghostery than an adblocker.

Depends on the list installed, If you have Easyprivacy installed then you're covering both sides.

uBlock in 'Advanced User' mode[0] allows for significant, granular script and iframe blocking. 3rd-party default-deny mode, even in the absence of the EasyPrivacy list will give you a significant amount of control over external entities that are frequently used to track users across the web. It's also somewhat more intelligible than NoScript.

I would argue that with Dynamic filtering (enabled for advanced users) the goal of uBlock is not limited to ads, but to any undesired content on the internet. I guess you could say the same about Adblock, though, so I guess YMMV.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...

I specifically emphasize on the home page of the project [1]:

"uBlock Origin (or uBlock₀) is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker."

It will report everything to the user -- including behind-the-scene network requests [2].

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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#philosophy

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Behind-the-scene-netw...