I once had to sit thru an entire full day training course on a piece of software. It was a requirements management “tool” for electronics and software. My company had paid millions for it. They also had to pay for these training classes - and then pay me to sit thru them. So, this software was crap (most is), but it had this really awesome feature. There was a big red button in the upper left corner. Seriously: big, maybe 5 times the size of any other buttons, and Red - nothing else was red. But the best part was that the poor lady doing the training had to devote a b ig chunk of the training course to saying “Please don’t click on that big red button”. She said it at the start, and she repeated it at various points. The button’s purpose was to run a query on the whole inventory of requirements. But it was keyed off of a dialog that you had to fill in. If you filled in nothing, then it assumed you wanted to search for nothing amongst everything. Sort of a logical divide-by-zero - which if you don’t recall 4th grade math very well, is an impossibility. SO the thing would just chug away and basically lock up the whole system. So “Don’t click the big red button”. When I got back to my desk the next day to try and get some productivity out of this new “tool” - you can guess what happened. I swear I didn’t mean to do it.

That was a way long-winded intro. The modern form of this stupidity are myriad websites that actually ask you to do really stupid things because they are too stupid or lazy to make their shit work correctly. Examples: Please disable your pop-up blocker, Please click the Trust this provider checkbox, Please set your security to Medium.