We modified our hosts file to send traffic from doubleclick.net and all of its subdomains to 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1. This has no effect. However, other domains are successfully blocked in this way (in particular, those annoying animated gif ads). The exception is doubleclick.net. Any idea why?
Mac Studio (2022)
Interesting that you are relying on using the Hosts file for this purpose as you may be better served by using something like Pi-hole or AdGuard. Both of these have the advantage of supporting multiple LAN clients without having to modify each of their respective Hosts file.
To block all doubleclick domains/subdomains, I would just create and employ a regex filter.
FWIW. For a web extension, I use uBlock Origin, if I'm only interested in blocking domain within a browser, but again use a dedicated ad blocker for all of my network clients.
Thanks. I will try the filter route.
I am using Total Adblock, CleanWeb, AdLock, AdGuard, Wipr, Banish, Hush, StopTheMadness and others. None of them stops doublelcik.com on Safari.
I did not know about uBlock Origin. I will give that a try. Thanks.
Hosts File and doubleclick.net
