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right click, "Inspect Element". Add an extra CSS rule to the element{}, of display:none. This works on almost all sites with popup overlay crap.

There's probably a plugin which lets you do this with a single toolbar button...

For sites that do this, the appropriate single keypress is Ctrl-W.

Some sites appear to block Ctrl-W these days. Those sites get the full AdBlock "Go Away" treatment.