Re: [TCLUG:20613] slashdot and doubleclick

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

Thomas T. Veldhouse said:
> I believe that blocking doubleclick can cause may sites to fail completely.

(I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, but...)

I use junkbuster and have seen it and similar blocking proxies recommended
many times.  I've seen requests for ipchains rules to block doubleclick and
suggestions to use dummy entries in /etc/hosts or (for those who use them)
local DNS servers to reroute doubleclick.net to localhost.

But I have never seen it suggested before that any of these things could
cause sites to stop working entirely, much less the names of any sites
adversely affected by them.  (Except sites hosted on doubleclick itself, of
course.)

If you're serious, what is your statement based on?  Which sites are liable
to fail and why?

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