lombard street SF #clefairy #pokemongo pic.twitter.com/FSlL3MNbnH
— Laura Hyunjhee Kim (@lauraonsale) July 8, 2016
OK, we get it. Pokémon Go, the augmented reality mobile game that dropped last week, is well past the point of "popular" and has straight up reached phenomenon status. And with that comes a parade of stories about the impact of cartoon creatures on public safety, privacy, business strategy, and wealth redistribution. But what if, like, you don't care? About any of it? Well, there's now some good news for those of you who want to browse the internet without being forced to consider why Cubone wears his dead mother's skull as a helmet. Cnet reports that a new Chrome browser extension called PokeGone will wipe the web of any and all mentions of the aforementioned game.
According to its Github page, PokeGone is based on a similar Chrome extension that blocks mentions of presumptive Republican presidential Donald Trump and, according to its author, "[attempts] to identify semantically sections of the page likely to contain [a] Pokémon Go reference and removes them from the page."
Preppy simple, right? Well, maybe — the extension currently has zero stars on the Chrome web store and several reviews saying it simply doesn't work.
However, the extension's less than stellar functionality may be a blessing in disguise for all you haters out there. After all, if installed and fully functioning, you would have missed this article and with it the news that a week from tomorrow almost 5,000 people are set to descend on San Francisco for a massive meetup and meandering playing of Pokémon Go. Instead of being mentally prepared for the sight, as you are now, you may have wandered straight into the shoe-less hoards of gamers completely unprepared.
As it is, consider this your fair warning.
