Your Button Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad
AdBlock for Chrome updated recently. Among other changes, there is now an AdBlock button that sits in the extension bar and can't be disabled. This is the button that ends the universe.

The extension's author blames the inability to disable the button on Chrome's developers, links to a bug report and encourages users to upvote it, and posts instructions for hiding the button. Alas, the instructions just shorten the extension button space and cause expansion arrows to appear, which people hate almost as much as they hate the button. Most commenters also have great difficulty understanding the instructions in the first place.

Cue 300+ comments of seething button-rage.

I can't link to individual comments, but highlights include the straightforward:

Noooo! I don't want button!!!

The aesthetically affronted:

This is a useful extension, but I've had to disable it because the large, bright red button destroys the look of my toolbar.

It was functioning fine for months without a giant red stop sign smacking me in the periphery of my vision.

The scatological:

crap button ,,ur brain is full of semen??

Asking to drag a button to the right to hide it is like saying if you don't like a pile of poo in the middle of your room just put a rug over it.

The baffling:

Thanks but your acting like google on youtube

And occasionally the defensive:

Adblock can put a button on my bloody forehead if it wants to, it's that important.


For reference, the button itself looks like this. There's also some bonus wanking about AdBlock now requiring access to your browsing history.