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		bmelton on March 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Checkboxes that kill your product I'm not a UI guy, so my point wasn't whether or not the checkboxes should or shouldn't exist, but to clarify that all the use cases he asserted "broke the entire internet" had valid uses and represented the desired behavior. That it happens to break a few popular websites doesn't mean that the entire internet is broken, or that that wasn't the desired effect.

mfjordvald on March 19, 2013 | [–]

For most users, breaking Google is actually breaking the entire internet. How will they ever find the Facebook login page again?

chris_wot on March 19, 2013 | [–]

Funnily enough, the Internet was never broken by turning off JavaScript.

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