[kingu]

"Seventy percent of consumers said they were unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a Web site that has pop-up advertising, registration log-on pages, software installation, or slow-loading pages, E-Commerce Times reports."

Simply biased reporting, and not real statistics. Why do websites have pop-ups? Because people buy off of them. Advertisers don't dump money into advertising that doesn't provide results, and websites have pop-up advertising because advertisers will pay the most for them.

70% won't return? Gosh, the NY Times has a huge registration database, where people return time and time again, yet they have annoying pop-ups, registration and some of the slowest loading pages out there. Their newest trick is to show an advertisement before showing the story.

The absence of common sense here is that a reporter is making up statistics on the fly to support their preconceived notions and the additional lack of common sense exhibited by those folks who buy crud off of pop-up advertising.

[Sofa King]

"The absence of common sense here is that a reporter is making up statistics on the fly"

I'm still waiting to see the data that your claims are based off of.