May I suggest Tracker Control, allows per-app network access and even restricts certain tracking requests. Only downside is it takes the VPN slot. Very much worth it though I believe

Sounds like you need to check out Org-roam (if you use emacs) or some other zettelkasten style note taking software

This was the answer, called up and got them to unblock ports 80 and 443 (they actually unblocked them all). Thanks alot!