C'mon. We deal with advertising EVERYWHERE we turn at the games and we don't complain. We don't complain about other ads on the website.. we understand the need to pay the bills. I draw the line at pop-ups, they are the most irritating advertising strategy created in years.
It’s not a “popup” per se, but it feels like one. It’s a flash animation that is embedded in the ticats.ca and cfl.ca home page.
Here’s a link to what it looks like:
http://www.cfl.ca/themes/cfl2/fla/coin.swf
I use Firefox. It does appear to happen the first time I load the http://www.ticats.ca page or the http://www.cfl.ca page. reloading the page makes it disappear. But as mentioned, it probably returns the first time I load those pages tomorrow.
It's funny - at home I can see the "close" option, but at work I can't. There is nothing more annoying than a pop-up that won't close and blocks your view of the site. But if it closes easily I don't really care.
I hate popup advertising too…I hear about all of these great 3d effects in Vista, but all I can think of is ‘great…another way for them to be annoying’.