ad.doubleclick.net jams Back button

[_DD]

(Re IE6)

Yes, I have blocked ad.doubleclick.net in hosts:

127.0.0.1 xdoubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 xwww.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 xad.doubleclick.net

(x's prepended to keep those inert. They are correct in hosts)

That blocks the popups themselves. IE's history apparently still gets
ahold of it.

So I've added possible mutations to IE's "Restricted Sites"
(*.doubleclick.net)

I've also run the usual spyware checkers, etc (Ad-Aware, Spybot).

For some reason, this still appears in IE's Back button, and keeps the
Back function from working.

Ideas?

 

[Poprivet]

(Re IE6)

Yes, I have blocked ad.doubleclick.net in hosts:

127.0.0.1 xdoubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 xwww.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 xad.doubleclick.net

(x's prepended to keep those inert. They are correct in hosts)

That blocks the popups themselves. IE's history apparently still gets
ahold of it.

So I've added possible mutations to IE's "Restricted Sites"
(*.doubleclick.net)

I've also run the usual spyware checkers, etc (Ad-Aware, Spybot).

For some reason, this still appears in IE's Back button, and keeps the
Back function from working.

Ideas?

It'll still appear in the backbutton because the call still gets made; it's
just that the call doesn't go to dblclk; so you still get it showing there.
No help for it that I know of.

Pop`

 

[_DD]

It'll still appear in the backbutton because the call still gets made; it's
just that the call doesn't go to dblclk; so you still get it showing there.
No help for it that I know of.

Pop`

Thanks, Pop. All the Google info that I turned up said that if it was
added to IE's Restricted Sites that it should never get routed to the
Back button's history. I guess it doesn't work like that.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Thanks, Pop. All the Google info that I turned up said that if it was
added to IE's Restricted Sites that it should never get routed to the
Back button's history. I guess it doesn't work like that.

I have learned to click on the down-arrow next to the BACK button to choose how far to go back.
Thus bypassing the doubleclick blocked ads. I have also learned which sites tend to use the
doubleclick ads. (Hate the sites that use this crap, but that is the price of free internet.)

 

[_DD]

[sites that are]
added to IE's Restricted Sites ...should never get routed to the
Back button's history. I guess it doesn't work like that.

I have learned to click on the down-arrow next to the BACK button to choose how far to go back.
Thus bypassing the doubleclick blocked ads. I have also learned which sites tend to use the
doubleclick ads. (Hate the sites that use this crap, but that is the price of free internet.)

Yeah, I've been accustomed to using the Back button without having to
think about it, but now that lots of sites are using the despicable
ad.doubleclick.net, it renders the Back button useless.

There must be a way to keep them out of the pipeline completely. I was
under the impression that IE's Restricted Sites was supposed to do
that. That does not seem to work though.

 

[Guest]

adshield works, I happen to have the free version, it's paid now.
it sometimes take multiple attempt to block ads but it does block them.
also spyware blaster blocks the flash component ad's

[sites that are]
added to IE's Restricted Sites ...should never get routed to the
Back button's history. I guess it doesn't work like that.

I have learned to click on the down-arrow next to the BACK button to choose how far to go back.
Thus bypassing the doubleclick blocked ads. I have also learned which sites tend to use the
doubleclick ads. (Hate the sites that use this crap, but that is the price of free internet.)

Yeah, I've been accustomed to using the Back button without having to
think about it, but now that lots of sites are using the despicable
ad.doubleclick.net, it renders the Back button useless.

There must be a way to keep them out of the pipeline completely. I was
under the impression that IE's Restricted Sites was supposed to do
that. That does not seem to work though.