Random annoyance of the day

On my travels, I see a lot of sites claiming to be "Powered by Zango" (yes, it's a wonderfully vague term, isn't it? You might as well put "powered by windmills" for all the good it does you. I mean, it's not like Zango Man is powering sections of the Interweb with his Cyber-bicycle. Though I'd certainly pay to see it).

Usually, the "Powered by Zango" thing only appears when you try to access some content on a site, at which point you're whisked away to something like this.

Not with the above games cheat site, however (click to enlarge). No, that would be too subtle. Here, they make this sucker scroll up and down (in front of the page) in a hugely annoying fashion (like those terrible flash ads - you know the ones).

Apart from being incredibly annoying, it also makes it completely impossible to decide if the content on the site is actually worth installing Zango for in the first place. Doh, well done that webmaster. Lose 6,000 clever points and report to nurse for a sound thrashing.

Once you get bored (after about three seconds) and click exit, you get one final, last gasp attempt to install Zango:

Seriously - go away.

I already said I don't want it. Continue to annoy me with stupidity and I shall infect your gene pool with horrific Voodoo Curses the likes of which you've never seen, except for that film The Skeleton Key which I thought was quite good actually even though nobody watched it on the plane.

...er...

Yeah, so once you've finally removed the prompt, you can happily browse the page at your leisure, making a mockery of the whole "WANT SITE = NEED ZANGO" stuff pasted inside the popup box. Especially as anyone with Javascript switched off won't even see it. I'll have a double-doh sandwich with a side order of craptacular to go, please. Better make it a double for the webmaster.

So there we have it. Nothing major, but God did this annoy me on my random travels today.