Many of the same block lists used by ad blocker extensions can also be used globally by your hosts file to redirect all requests to that domain to a non-routable address. You may sometimes see this referred to as “blackholing” DNS. If a program initiates any lookups for cookielaw.org, and cookielaw.org is on this hosts file, it should be redirected to 0.0.0.0 which instantly fails out as unresolvable preventing the program from connecting to the actual destination. The concept of blackhol...
