Broadband with Yahoo! Sucks

Some DSL service providers know how to gunk up a good thing. SBC, for instance, combines its otherwise good broadband service with Yahoo! You have to install, I think, all of the overwhelming Yahoo! stuff, the browser for instance, with the broadband software. Maybe there's a way to deactivate the Yahoo! baggage. All I want is just a broadband connection. Let me dress it up the way I want.