Pop up ads on www.iht.com

You're on www.iht.com as I am on a nearly daily basis, you have a subscription to the print paper (I appreciate many Internet users do not) and this advert (see below) pops up as an entire page. Indeed entire page pop-ups even on home pages are common on many media sites.

In the case of these pop-ups, or specifically in the case of the iht.com subscription pop-up, I don't know what the click-through rate is nor the click through to conversion rate is nor the conversion to retention rate is, but either way, they bug the hell out of me.

Is Internet advertising over-rated?

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