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.

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	bobafeis 2010-10-06 12:57 am UTC (link)
	I didn't even notice the button in firefox (which is weird, because it's next to the search bar, which I cannot live without), but now I can't stop staring at it. Hmmmm. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	violetsquirrel 2010-10-06 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, this is the first time I've ever noticed it. Has it been there all along? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bobafeis 2010-10-06 03:14 am UTC (link)
	Looking at screencaps I've done, it's apparently been there for quite a while. Luckily, whenever I close the tab with this wank, its spell is broken and I'm able to forget all about it. I guess I shouldn't switch over to chrome, in case the button's magic is stronger there. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	barankhy 2010-10-06 04:43 am UTC (link)
	Ahaha, the same for me. I was all "...whoa, there's a BUTTON" (Reply to this)(Parent)

kedase_derragar
2010-10-06 10:13 pm UTC (link)

I kind of had the opposite happen once: the button defaulted to off when I installed AdBlock, so the first time I tried adding something to the blocked list a few days later, I thought I was going crazy when I couldn't find the button where the instructions I'd found said it would be.

As for the wank, I do think it's kind of silly that there's no option to turn it off, and it would bug the hell out of me if I had to have that icon up there all the time, but this is still hilariously over the top.

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	sumire 2010-10-07 08:00 am UTC (link)
	OMG, I didn't even notice it until I read your post. Having seen it, though, I'm still finding it easy to overlook--it kind of blends in with the little red X box above it, and the little red Firefox icon. They're less like piles of poo in my living room than like dusty bits in the corners. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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