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<blockquote data-quote="Wave" data-source="post: 580001"><p>If you add an entry to the Windows Hosts file then a connection to the entry will fail to be successful; Windows will automatically handle the blocking-side of things through it's networking functions. Therefore, if you wish to temporarily disable a host from being blocked you'll be forced to revert the changes of the Hosts file temporarily - the problem however is you may not know which host was responsible for the advertisement being blocked which you need to access since you do not get these details when using the Hosts file, you are just blocking a large database of several hundred/thousand entries to ad-provider networks (usually).</p><p></p><p>This method can also be used to redirect traffic (e.g. block specific websites by having the web-page redirect back to <a href="https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a>), so it's only use is not limited for advertisement mitigation. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wave, post: 580001"] If you add an entry to the Windows Hosts file then a connection to the entry will fail to be successful; Windows will automatically handle the blocking-side of things through it's networking functions. Therefore, if you wish to temporarily disable a host from being blocked you'll be forced to revert the changes of the Hosts file temporarily - the problem however is you may not know which host was responsible for the advertisement being blocked which you need to access since you do not get these details when using the Hosts file, you are just blocking a large database of several hundred/thousand entries to ad-provider networks (usually). This method can also be used to redirect traffic (e.g. block specific websites by having the web-page redirect back to [URL="https://www.google.com/"]Google[/URL]), so it's only use is not limited for advertisement mitigation. ;) [/QUOTE]
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