How dare you pandora

I dont know how or why this happened, but for the first time in my entire time using pandora, it launched an advertisement popup. This is reprehensible and completely pisses me off.

I look at their screen many times a day, with it's included moderately intrusive but tolerable side advertisement. I am not even bothered when it is animated, but one thing I will never tolerate is the use of popup ads. That's madness!

Their use of a flash based player is irritating enough, with the lack of stability of flash 7 on linux, but this is going too far.


Update: To add insult to injury, upon closing the pandora.com squeezebox ad, the browser crashed. Your service kicks ass pandora, but you obviously dont give a crap about linux users. It may not seem to be your target market, but I've gotten two other windows users on pandora.com since I started using it. The Linux user market is the same group of people who makes computer tech reccomendations to all those happy go lucky windows users out there, dont irritate us.

A meaningful alternative to this setup, and one that would make it harder for users to rip songs, would be a shoutcast stream that is controlled from a non flash web page for those users not wanting to deal with flash crap.