On 10/13/2011 12:16 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
  On 13 Oct 2011 at 10:27, Ray Arachelian wrote:
  That's what AdBlock+, NoScript, and Ghostery
are for.  Install them,
 and block all that trash without mercy. 
 There are also published lists of HOSTS
entries that simply raedirect
 to localhosts or 0.0.0.0.  Browser-independent.
 Does anyone know of a DNS lookup utility that accepts HOSTS entries
 with wildcards?  e.g., *.doubleclick.net  Windoze or *nix versions,
 doesn't matter. 
Which is why it's better to let your browser plugins do the work for
you.  Blocking *.doubleclick.net/* from within AdBlock+ is trivial to
constantly doing nslookup for whatever the hosts are and adding them to
/etc/hosts.
Since you bring up browser independent, I wonder if there's some way to
export these lists to something that squid understands?