The chords are usually all played as dominant seventh chords, although they are not actually functioning as dominant chords in that they do not resolve to a tonic. The F blues scale can be played over this entire progression. This has a lot to do with the way instruments are tuned. Music written for these instruments is therefore transposed. The fingerings for the instruments favors playing in the key of C, which is actually Bb or Eb, depending on the instrument.
Guitars tend to dominate rock music, and guitars are tuned to favor the keys containing sharps.
Playing the blues scale over the basic three chord blues progression in a jazz setting gets old very quickly. Starting around the swing era, and most notably in the bebop era, musicians began to make additions to this simple formula. This progression offers a wider range of scale possibilities than does the basic three chord blues. The idea of adding ii-V's to the blues progression yields more variations. This particular progression is especially common in bebop and later styles.