I'd use hosts (that's a file used by Windows) or Adblock (that's a free add-on for Firefox and possibly other browsers) to limit the number of ads read.
I just added adlog.cbsi.com and dw.cbsi.com to my hosts-file. That seem new domains used by cnet/cbs for ads.
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Until a few years ago, dialup access was tollerable in speed. Since then it has slowed to a crawl on any PC I've used that requires it to get online. Sure, I know there's all the graphics sites use to be cool and flashy to slow things down.
However, that's not nearly the whole story. Constant streaming ads and background updating are the real problems. Entities like "doubleclick.ads" and "google.ads" are epidemic!
In the old days I used a pretty good firewall that would let me manually stop much of the junk and updating I didn't want during a surf session. That (free) program was bought out and used by a big name because it was better than theirs. Now I have to use Windows firewall or Zone Alarm if I want a freebee and they don't allow custom editing of the connection stream.
Also, I used to use an excellent ISA Zoltrex 56k hardware modem that won't work in a PCI slot today. The new ones are all software modems. I could possibly use an external hardware modem if I could find a good one for WinXP.
So, what's a dialup cheapskate to do for a usable connection??

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