Website working despite being blocked

[Shubam16]

Let's say I wanted to block reddit.com, I added ||reddit.com^ to my blacklist, but I can still access Reddit. The tab title says "Access Denied" for a second, but the website loads fine.
Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Boo Berry]

Try...

||reddit.com^$empty,important

You may need to clear your browser cache to get it to fully work.