>>>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.
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>>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.
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>A lot of people cancel land phone lines and not at all because of the spam or telemarketers. Now that almost everybody has a cell phone and most cell phone companies allow unlimited number of calls; hence, no reason to have land lines. Just extra expense. But I pay so little for the land line that I am even lazy to cancel it :)

I think it's the combination of extra expense and nuisance. You're paying to be annoyed.

Which is exactly why I avoid anything that contains ads and isn't free. Free plus ads, OK, if they aren't too intrusive, in the way, shouting at me, insulting etc, OK, that's the price of free. Paid? I'm paying for the content AND to be free from ads. You like the advertisers' money, go take it and I am not giving you any.