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Who the hell do I complain to about the ads that are appearing on Xbox Live's Dashboard?

The Dashboard auto-loads the "Spotlight" channel which has, until now, limited itself to new game announcements, content, tips and strategies, community events, and in the non-game category, special Netflix offers or Xbox media-specific music and videos. All about the Xbox 360 and things you can do with it, no problem. Occasionally there are TV show and movie promotions for items which are not yet for download on the service, but they usually offer free gamerpics or themes for the 360; those are called presents.

The other day there was a item in it for Progressive Auto Insurance. Like a trained monkey, I automatically selected it to see if it had a contest or some DLC for it, or Forza or PGR DLC associated with it. But selecting it just played a low resolution TV advertisement. Nothing to do with games, nothing to do with Netflix or any other XBL-connected service. A TV ad hosted front and center on the Live service I'm paying US$50 a year for. What's next, unskippable advertisements?

Edit: Apparently SONY already had this great idea. I am speechless.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175430
Thanks to andrewv for the clue.

Remembering pop-up ads from about five years ago; they used to infect my webcrawling experience at every turn. Sometimes they'd spawn new pop-ups, or even multiple new pop-ups, and I would find myself playing a frustrating variant of whack-a-mole on my own desktop. The damned things are hated by everyone who has ever seen one. Since switching to Firefox, I have pretty much forgotten of their existence, except to laugh when a lingering IE user laments their continued existence.

Then they figured out how to get Flash to auto launch a new window, so I installed FlashBlock; problem solved.

Except for just now. It seems that Tribal Fusion, purveyors of animated, high-bandwidth emoticons with SOUND, and thrice-damned creators of banner ads for same, that will play sounds just if you mouse-over them, have figured out a way to get Firefox to spawn new windows even with FlashBlock actively heismanning that method. Here is what I would like to tell the person who sets their web policy:

Dear Mr. Tribalfusion,
Here's the thing: People that are using a browser with pop-ups blocked, and have even installed an extension that is meant to block in-page or pop-up flash ads are NOT YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE. They will not buy your stuff. Their resolve will not buckle after you heap one pop-up or a dozen pop-ups on them, but will be reinforced and multiplied by each instance you inflict, linearly. Or worse. This is not negotiable, this is human nature. So hear me when I say that you could put an ad in a pop-up for guaranteed salvation of my eternal fucking soul, and a nice condo in the afterlife, and I WOULD STILL NOT PATRONIZE YOUR AD. It is just that simple.

Kindly fuck off.
Me.

edit: corrected rage-driven misspelling.