I presume you know about / use AdSubtract (Pro)? If you don't, check it out.
There is also a nifty little app called IDCide. These things (plus ZoneAlarm Pro, Ad Aware, and a real hardware firewall) are what I use.

Stephan:
1) Don't use JAVAscript that obliges me to access info on a pop up windows
2) Don't create a site that browser specific. Internet Explorer isn't the only browser on the net
3) adhere to the W3C standards
4) Don't choke my page loading with music and animated boucing balls
5) Don't hide the contact info; you're website is the store windows.
6) Make information esay to find. I pregfer an austure site that allows me to find info quickly than a fancy one that doesn't
7) When I send an e mail I expect an answer within 24 hours
8) I expect website to tell what file formats the documents are. Nothing's more annoying to click on a links and see Acrobat reader load.
9) Don't oblige me to download some spurious plugin for me to acess your page. If I wanted Cresendo, I would've downloaded it.
10) If I'm looking for the knowledge base, forums or tech support documents, don't make me spelunk for them- i'm a user not a geologist - and programmer beter search engines. Nothing bugs me more than typing common words and be told there are no documents when there are because I didn't use the jargon word du jour.

xavier

Several months ago, because I was inundated with SPAM, I added a new email address and made it the only one I looked at. Yesterday I checked my mail at the old address and saw 191 pieces. All but three were SPAM and at least half were in Arabic or some other scribble.

I have SPAM blocking now and the mass mailings don't get through, BUT technology now lets each piece go out as invividual email, like junk mail in our mail box, so it won't be long til we all have to get something else.

It's interesting that you should post this now. Just yesterday I decided that I was going to ditch my Yahoo mail account because of these very issues. Specifically, they had a Flash ad with sound, which is not good in the office. But the thing that really ticked me off is having their stupid "Yahoo! Delivers" service start sending me spam despite having turned it off in the "marketing preferences" settings.

My TV and radio are for entertainment, but I work on the computer. Respect the difference.

Wish I could teach my folks that. They're in a huff because I've told them I don't like to get cutesy web greeting cards, funny joke-of-the-day that I first saw back in 1988, or fake virus warnings.

A couple of others have mentioned it, but no more sound! I don't mind advertising, but please.

Oh, and those of us on older computers, these flash ads and the like lock them up. Stop it.

Said it before, and I'll say it again. Get OPERA!
You can turn off the popups and the sound and the plugins and even the pictures and page formatting (which is very handy when you run across those "enhanced for MSIE version xx in a screen size your monitor doesn't run" sites).

I have a Yahoo account that I keep just for a spamtrap. The only time I ever access it is when I am required to enter an e-mail address to access a site, and they require me to respond to an e-mail sent to me.

My remaining e-mail addresses (I have four more) are all located on my own domain, and I can kill them at will if one becomes a spam magnet.

I refuse to buy anything from any company that uses intrusive ads (anything other than a banner ad is intrusive). Because the computer I use most often is a brand new, military-issue computer (onto which none of the nifty little plug-ins can be installed), I miss most of the really obnoxious ads out there.

I'm thisclose to ditching my Yahoo account because of the intrusive flash/pop up ads that cover the entire page for a few seconds.

My biggest web pet peeve is the animate ads that come flying across your screen, not only blocking what you are reading, but scaring the crap out of you in the process.

This reminds me of Roger Ebert's 1996 "The Boulder Pledge" with reads:

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

BTW, I've been enjoying surfing with a new browser named "Phoenix". It supresses pop-ups and it doesn't bark at me to install Flash - because I haven't!-)

That and I always obfuscate my email address.

All this combined usually keeps me moving along at a good clip/with minimal threats from pop-ups, pup-unders and other spawns of satan.

Dear spam industry: I am quite happy with both the size and spunkiness of my penis, thank you very much.

Had I responded to half the email offers I received last week, I would now circle the equator 8 times. If I had responded to the other half, I would be entering lunar entry space.