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This dialog is torturing me

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This wins the award for the most annoying dialog in existence.

It pops up in Chrome/Mac dozens of times a day.

It's like a cyber-mosquito.

I think it's a plot to get me to provide input to algorithms guiding one of their driver-less cars. When the car has to make a decision it farms the task out to one of its slaves (i.e. me). If I choose to click Wait, the car makes a right turn. If I decide to kill the frozen tabs, it makes a left turn. If I leave the dialog up, well, I don't know what it does.

I hope I'm doing something useful. It's hard for me to believe that this is just a bug they haven't gotten around to fixing. No it must have some greater meaning. It must. It must. I'm talking to myself now.

9/20/2013; 6:50:25 PM


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