sometimes it is better not to have a pause button

Me, watching an online movie or DVD:
- watch 10 minutes
- put it on pause and go get a snack. Watch 5 more minutes
- put it on pause and go get some other snack and a drink. Watch 10 more minutes.
- put it on pause to take the clothes out of the washer and hang them up.
- check email or LJ/DW
- watch some more of the movie. ::sniff:: what's that smell? ::sniff, sniff::
- determine that the smell is coming from the sofa. It must really be time to wash this futon cover.
- put movie on pause. Remove futon cover and put it in the washer. Vacuum dust off the futon mattress (how the heck did dust get in there?). Vacuum the rest of the room while I'm at it, and the kitchen too. Spray some odor remover on the worst smelling part of the mattress.
- watch some more movie while sitting on the floor.
- get up and do some exercise while watching movie.
- put movie on pause. go off and do something else. Research printer problem. Fix printer problem.
- for the 10th time, hope that modern LED TVs don't have a problem with image burn-in, as this one paused image has been displaying for the last 2 hours.
- post something to LJ/DW
- possibly return to watching the rest of the movie.

Pinterest

Does Pinterest really not want people to be able to browse their site without creating an account and logging in? When I open any Pinterest page, the moment I scroll down a little bit, the bottom half of the page gets overlaid with a "There's more to see..." banner with Continue (for creating an account) and Login buttons. This effectively makes the site unbrowsable. Am I overlooking some link or button for disabling that?

Furthermore, even when a page seems to link to interesting things, such as this one about black-out panels for windows, I can't find a way of getting to the referenced sites. For example, when I click the top middle pinned item, rather than taking me to the "Tutorial: How to Sew DIY Black-out Li..." page, it just takes me to another Pinterest page, not the Tutorial.

Even then, it overlays the next Pinterest page with a login box. In the past, when the site didn't do this, and I was able to freely browse it, I sometimes seriously considered setting up my own account there. Something stopped me; I don't recall the details. Something about copyright issues and/or the Terms of Use. Or perhaps exactly that perceived inability to actually link to pages on other websites?? But now the site is so obnoxious with that login banner, that I want nothing to do with it.

Well, according to this page, clicking on the pinned items should take you to the referenced page, not another Pinterest page. But maybe the links only work correctly when you are logged in? Or are people inappropriately pinning other Pinterest pages, rather than the actual site that the original pinner pinned?

3/29/2015 Update:
I've discovered that if you disable Javascript for "pinimg.com", then the Pinterest pages display without the overlying login banner/panels, and clicking through to the referenced sites works fine. However, only 3 pinned items are shown per page this way; any additional ones are hidden.

There's also this GreaseMonkey script which lets you browse the site without being logged in, and without any pinned items being hidden (in this case, Javascript for "pinimg.com" must be enabled).