Alternatively, in Chrome, right click on the sign-in window, click "Inspect element", scroll up a bit, highlight the <div> elements with ids TB_overlay and TB_window, press delete, close the inspector window, and enjoy. (I'm sure it's just as easy in other browsers.) ;)
Yeah, because you want to do all then when the website shows that they don't care about you as a visitor on their site.
Well, 90% of the time I just hit "Back" when a canopy like that is thrown in my face. Sometimes I want to read the content, though, and would prefer to do so a bit subversively rather than giving in and signing up.
How weird, it didn't a minute ago.
Or just click cancel as soon as the text appears, so the log-in screen never pops-up. Works just as well.
Or you can Ctrl-U and copy the article HTML (I mean the actual article).
What is Ctrl-U? "Copy Under the popup banner"?
You can use Adblock to block it (right click on it). It might take 2-3 tries to get rid of everything.