>If I just go to cnn.com - all these things together block over 80 things. I never see any ads anywhere. It's a shame that we have to go to so much trouble to avoid these things - but once you have it setup right it makes surfing the net a lot better experience.

It's in the nature of advertising to destroy any medium it sets its foot on. Yesterday we just realized we don't have phone numbers to our daughters in the US, and guess what: they both cancelled their land phones. Reason: spam, i.e. telemarketers.