Adobe Creative Cloud has been known to occasionally rewrite or bypass host file entries during updates.
: Stopping apps from sending usage data and analytics back to Adobe . adobe hosts file block list exclusive
For a more comprehensive block, consider using the Windows Defender Firewall to block the .exe files directly, which prevents any network communication regardless of the domain. Adobe Creative Cloud has been known to occasionally
| Feature | Description | |---------|-------------| | | Contains only Adobe-related domains, not mixed with general ads/malware blocks. | | Comprehensive coverage | Includes not just license validation ( licensing.adobe.com , lm.licenses.adobe.com ) but also secondary fallback servers , geo-specific domains , and telemetry endpoints . | | Exclusive entries | May block less-known servers like adobe-dns-01.adobe.com , ccmdls.adobe.com , hl2rcv.adobe.com , crl.adobe.com (certificate revocation — can also cause check-ins). | | No false positives | Since it’s exclusive to Adobe, it won’t break other software or general browsing. | | Maintained separately | Often kept in private GitHub repos or piracy-focused forums, not in mainstream blocklists (e.g., not in StevenBlack’s default list). | | Feature | Description | |---------|-------------| | |
For more information on the hosts file and creating a block list, refer to the following resources:
# Adobe Telemetry and Tracking Block List 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 prod.://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 adobe.demdex.net 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 personalized.://adobe.com # Adobe Creative Cloud Background Services 0.0.0.0 cc-api-data.adobe.io 0.0.0.0 ic.adobe.io 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com # Adobe Notification and Update Daemons 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com 0.0.0.0 ://adobe.com Use code with caution.