I voted, "Popups are a useful way to make money... yada yada." but I don't agree wirth the whole "Fuck the surfer" part. Pop-ups are a very usefull way to make money and if used correctly they can be effective without fucking over your surfers. We have lots of very loyal readers and 1 popup on
The Daily Dirt. Once the surfer closes it then its gone. Nothing more after that. We haven't gotten one surfer complaint about it since it went up. It does however make thousands of dollars for us every month that we would be giving up otherwise.