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Re:The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy by babuskov on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:30AM (#9366829)
There was a blue box on the right side saying "Have you clicked the button?" on most subreddits I read on April 1st.
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Re:The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy by gtwy on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:50AM (#9366894)
Most likely, he is blocking ads
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Re:The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy by obituary_latte on Monday April 13, 2015 @07:08AM (#9366938)
It wasn't an ad. Adblock did not affect the "have you clicked the button"...button.
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Re:The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy by kalleboo on Monday April 13, 2015 @08:49AM (#9367286)
It was definitely an ad[0]. But the Reddit subreddit ads I think are excluded from Adblock Plus if you have it set to allow "unobtrusive" ads (which is the default)

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/ads/comments/3181or/did_you_press_th...

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Re:The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy by obituary_latte on Monday April 13, 2015 @09:04AM (#9367342)
Not the button I'm talking about[0]. There must have been ads too, but there was a generic non-ad "Did you press the button" button on the front page in the days following Apr 1[1].

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20150402105722/http://www.reddit....

[1] http://i.imgur.com/Hvn6AuG.png

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