Late to the cord cutting party but finally cancelled my cable - Verizon is coming Jan 20th to upgrade Fios internet from 75M to 1G and dropping the TV and 3 boxes altogether - was paying $235 monthly, new bill will be $80. Not planning on adding any TV service if it has commercials, we do pay for Prime, Netflix, Hulu and use a shared HBO account

Also shout-out to mcluvin who piqued my interest when he mentioned using a home network Pi-Hole adblocker. Literally may be the best thing I did for myself in 2020 as it filters out much of the nonsense the internet has become. Raspberry Pi kit was $70 on Amazon and only took about an hour or so to set it up using various YouTube videos.

It's very interesting to see how different website have commercialized, on Pinside I get zero blocked queries but if I go to a site like CNN it blocks 60+ ads and trackers per page

It's official! Woke up this morning to disconnected cable - seems the earth is still spinning so I think we will be OK.

Cant wait for the first bill without TV package/box rentals

I cancelled mine using Verizon's using online chat. Super easy chat took all of 10 mins - was obviously offshore customer service so when he started on his script for customer retention I suggested we save both of us time and just cancel the tv package, upgrade internet to 1G, and I purchase their modem. He sent an email for me to confirm what we agreed to and the deal was done.

All things considered it was a pleasant and efficient experience

Ha - and the Verizon installer today was a pinhead! He mentioned he has been looking for a Tales from the Crypt and he had never heard of Pinside, so I expect we will have a new member soon.