My god that was horrible. I was listening to music and that crap came up.

I was looking for an article, closed it in disgust when I figured out that the site was the example.

Speaking of the misuse of technology, Flash seems to have a culture of this sort of crap (remember shockwave?).

HTML 5 seems to have more of a culture of nuanced integration with the rest of the web page.

Of course the more successful usages of Flash seem to trend toward seamless integration.