That was an auto-expiring
overlay, which is, in our eyes, very different from a pop-up that opens another window with useless ads for non-motorcycling stuff. Six of one, perhaps, to the non-technical, but it was only on the homepage and you should've only seen it once per day initially, then only once towards the end of the campaign.
We don't pop up other windows, not even for really cool content.
Anyway, that expired a while ago, and the point of this post seemed to be that they were getting pop-ups right now, and we wanted to let people know that they're not from us.
Mozilla (
www.mozilla.org lets you block pop-ups, explicitly block or allow cookies on a per-site basis, and is free. And it is the most standards-compliant browser. Give it a try if you're frustrated with vendor-supplied browswers.