Supposedly one can also install Greasemonkey and add a new plugin that blocks these things. I'm doing that now. I'm glad there is internal pressure to make it go away.
I guess I'm not saying they shouldn't experiment, just that I hated that particular venture. I am pleased that they quickly figured out almost no one appreciated it.
Yes, it's mostly a failure. The two main problems are (1) you can't turn it off and (2) it doesn't effect anybody but you. The main motivation for wiki-ing is that you can improve the whole world, even just a little bit, with a very small action. If they want us to wiki, they're going to have to fold the input into the Googlesauce. And if that's unacceptable or prone to abuse, it won't work. Second, it needs to be optional.
Your earlier post prompted a small debate in my head about when to make a controversial feature part of the official UI, and when to deprecate an old version once you do that. At first I was going to say, similarly, that they should make it optional at best... but there's a point when that's not maintainable. I'm not disagreeing with you, exactly.
And agreed on #2. It would have been disastrous if it were not confined to individual users' views, and pointless since it was.
If you really hate them that hard, you can log out of gmail, and they go away. Lame solution, I know.
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And agreed on #2. It would have been disastrous if it were not confined to individual users' views, and pointless since it was.
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