>>>>>>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 :)
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>>>We keep our land lines because the quality is so much higher than on cells.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Maybe you should change the cell company :). Mainly we keep the land line because the number is in all bank and other account databases. And to make them change the number will take a lot of effort.
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>Wouldn't help. It's the neighborhood. No one wants cell towers. The other advantage of the landline is that, with an appropriate phone, it works even when power is out. (Though since we switched to FiOS, that's less true, since there's a box in the garage with a battery than can run down.)
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>Tamar

Move to a new neighborhood :) (kidding). We have an VOIP land line that if the power is out, the phone is down too. Actually the cell phone works even if/when the power is out so it has a certain advantage. But I think that the days (years) of land phone lines is counted.