Blocked websites in hosts file ok with ping & tracert but still show in web browsers.

Hi.

I followed this video. I'm don't know why they still load in my web browsers (I tried both Firefox ESR & Pale Moon).

I'm using the file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/St...n-social/hosts

I'm using "tiktok.com" as an example.

Code:ping tiktok.com
PING tiktok.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 msCode:tracert tiktok.com

traceroute to tiktok.com (0.0.0.0), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 localhost (127.0.0.1) 0.037 ms 0.008 ms 0.007 msI can open https://www.tiktok.com in a web browser. Surely I shouldn't be able to?

I followed this: https://vitux.com/two-ways-to-flush-...ian-10-buster/

Also did a reboot.

Any ideas?

Thanks.