Pop-ups~Are Advertisers Doing More Harm Than Good?

I don't know about you, but I'm finding these pop-ups very distracting, not to mention, completely ANNOYING! I understand the need for advertisers to promote their products, but the way they do it online really irks me. It may sound silly, but I consider my PC my private domain, and the fact that it gets inundated with so much advertising, moreso pop-ups (despite a pop-up blocker) is driving me nuts! Recently on PayBox, I clicked onto one of their "training" links~I swear it took 10-12 more pop-ups to close the friggin' window! And, how about those pop-ups that take up your whole PC screen?!! As if pop-ups aren't bad enough, now there are pop-unders that appear behind a window, and slow your PC to a crawl~instant insanity!

 

The main goal of advertisers is to get people to try/buy/use their product, and if that's the case, why do advertisers go overboard online? And, how do they bypass your pop-up blockers? Well, I was curious enough to find the answers to those questions, so I searched pop-ups, and here's what Wiki said about circumventing blockers:

Users of websites and web applications continuously experience unwanted pop up ads through the course of their normal interaction with a web browser. Ordinarily users respond by dismissing the pop-up through the "close" or "cancel" feature of the window hosting the pop-up. Because this is a typical response, some authors of pop-up advertising depend on this, and create on-screen buttons or controls that look similar to a "close" or "cancel" option. When the user chooses one of these "simulated cancel" options, however, the button performs an unexpected or unauthorized action (such as opening a new pop-up, or running unauthorized commands on the user's system).

I'm sure another program will be developed to combat these types of pop-ups, and I'm just as sure advertisers will find away to circumvent that. So how do you cope with pop-ups, and are they sending you to the rubber room too?