Comments on: How to lower your phone + internet cost from $80 per month to $50 per month: buy your own cable modem and kick Comcast to the curb http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/2009/11/16/how-to-lower-your-phone-internet-cost-from-80-per-month-to-50-per-month-buy-your-own-cable-modem-and-kick-comcast-to-the-curb/ Musings of an indignant mind Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bye by Comcast, hello RCN! « Something better to do http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/2009/11/16/how-to-lower-your-phone-internet-cost-from-80-per-month-to-50-per-month-buy-your-own-cable-modem-and-kick-comcast-to-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-105000 Bye by Comcast, hello RCN! « Something better to do Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:17:28 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1096#comment-105000 [...] response to my recent letter to Comcast, I received a call from a friendly woman named Nancy in Comcast’s New England executive [...] [...] response to my recent letter to Comcast, I received a call from a friendly woman named Nancy in Comcast’s New England executive [...]

]]> By: Michael A. Burstein http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/2009/11/16/how-to-lower-your-phone-internet-cost-from-80-per-month-to-50-per-month-buy-your-own-cable-modem-and-kick-comcast-to-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-104980 Michael A. Burstein Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:31:39 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1096#comment-104980 I didn't realize you could have Google AdSense block certain ads. I am glad I brought the Comcast ads to your attention. I'm sure they're glad not to be advertising here either. :-) I didn’t realize you could have Google AdSense block certain ads.

I am glad I brought the Comcast ads to your attention. I’m sure they’re glad not to be advertising here either. :-)

]]> By: JonT http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/2009/11/16/how-to-lower-your-phone-internet-cost-from-80-per-month-to-50-per-month-buy-your-own-cable-modem-and-kick-comcast-to-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-104973 JonT Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:03:12 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1096#comment-104973 RCN has a referral program, so if you do decide to switch, please let me know. RCN has a referral program, so if you do decide to switch, please let me know.

]]> By: jik http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/2009/11/16/how-to-lower-your-phone-internet-cost-from-80-per-month-to-50-per-month-buy-your-own-cable-modem-and-kick-comcast-to-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-104972 jik Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:46 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1096#comment-104972 <em>And by the way, how ironic is it that this blog post is accompanied by ads for Comcast provided by Google?</em> Not for much longer. I just told Google AdSense to block Comcast ads from my site. It takes a few hours to kick in, but after that, they should be gone. Well, at least, the ones I know about right now should be gone. Alas, you can only block ads by URL domain, and God forbid there should be just one domain to block to get rid of all the Comcast ads! I had to block these: <blockquote> buycomcast.com comcast.com comcastauthorizedoffers.com comcastbundledeals.com comcastbusinessservices.com comcastcableoffers.com comcastdoubleplay.net comcastoffers.com </blockquote> Of course, there's no telling if more will pop up, either because there are more Comcast ad domains lurking in AdSense that I don't know about yet, or because somebody creates yet another domain selling Comcast services and adds it to AdSense to get around the people who have blocked all the old domains. <em>*sigh*</em> And by the way, how ironic is it that this blog post is accompanied by ads for Comcast provided by Google?

Not for much longer. I just told Google AdSense to block Comcast ads from my site. It takes a few hours to kick in, but after that, they should be gone.

Well, at least, the ones I know about right now should be gone. Alas, you can only block ads by URL domain, and God forbid there should be just one domain to block to get rid of all the Comcast ads! I had to block these:

buycomcast.com
comcast.com
comcastauthorizedoffers.com
comcastbundledeals.com
comcastbusinessservices.com
comcastcableoffers.com
comcastdoubleplay.net
comcastoffers.com

Of course, there’s no telling if more will pop up, either because there are more Comcast ad domains lurking in AdSense that I don’t know about yet, or because somebody creates yet another domain selling Comcast services and adds it to AdSense to get around the people who have blocked all the old domains. *sigh*

]]> By: Michael A. Burstein http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/2009/11/16/how-to-lower-your-phone-internet-cost-from-80-per-month-to-50-per-month-buy-your-own-cable-modem-and-kick-comcast-to-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-104971 Michael A. Burstein Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:20:21 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1096#comment-104971 Keep us posted... And by the way, how ironic is it that this blog post is accompanied by ads for Comcast provided by Google? Keep us posted…

And by the way, how ironic is it that this blog post is accompanied by ads for Comcast provided by Google?

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