At least twice per day, I hop on over to the news sites and check on what's happening in the world. I also stop by CNN's Money section to check on the few stocks I own.
While I'm reading an interesting story, I get a big blue box that appears over the paragraph I'm reading. If I scroll down, it continues to block the middle of the article. If you ignore it for a while, it goes away. I tend to avoid clicking on any box that says "close", since there are quite a few bits of malware floating around. It pisses me off that I have to wait to take some survey to finish reading. It's the equivalent of someone standing in front of you just before you enter your favorite coffee shop, asking you to take a survey and blocking you from your destination. Eventually they go away, but I hate them wasting my time. I'm already good at wasting my time, thank you very much.
Now, when those boxes pop up, I take the surveys. Yes, I looked at the page code to check if it was the legitimate survey link. Typically, they're about companies in the news, and they're looking at how the public perceives their press releases. I make sure I put in legitimate-sounding answers to the beginning questions, and then I slam the ad campaign. Hard. I even take the time to put in intelligent-sounding reasoning when they give me a free-form text box. I've sent in over thirty surveys about Bank of America alone. They must think the world hates them. Unfortunately for them, I think it's an accurate representation.