One thing I’ve noticed in my travels round the interweb is the growing number of intrustive overlays being used to…well, piss people off as far as I can tell. Let’s face it, do you ever take the survey or sign up to get spammed? I thought not! I’m going to start a new series naming and shaming sites that use horrible overlays – it’s called: OVERLAY SHAME
Wired Overlay Shame
April 6, 2009 • Overlay Shame

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even worse is when the survey is shown immediately on load of the site. How are you supposed to have any opinion other than ‘get lost?’
I completely agree Joff – they just spring it on you when you’re halfway through the first sentence…argh!