Currently topping the most hated list

For several weeks now the most hated practice/schmucks/feature/thing is when you are cheerily cruising along reading someone's archives and you come to a post talking about how terrific a new web comic is. You click the web comic and you end up at some dismal, soul sucking, pop-up spewing wasteland that is likely to age you by at least ten years before you can escape.

These horrors like to offer to be your new homepage and some go so far as to try and reset your browser and force you to stare at these desolate vistas every time you turn on your browser.

The aborted travesties of a webpage will also come up if you screw up while typing in a popular site like, well like our very own BrokerUniverse, if you type in brokersuniverse.com you get a load of garbage. The only cure I can see is to refuse to use these abominations and if you have a site that is popular and you decide you don't want it anymore don't let one of these gits get it. Give it to a fan who will keep it pure.