The legend of the Button-Eater who comes out from his lair somewhere deep inside the Web.

"average person steals 3 buttons a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person steals 0 buttons per year. Button-eater Ben, who lives in data server & steals over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Ah, "average", you imprecise term trying to be a proper measure of cenral tendency; give me "mean", "median", or "mode". Lies, damn lies, statistics, and ambiguous terminology.

You wouldn’t download a button

Time to sail the high seas.

Sometimes I think it'd be great if that was how the internet actually worked.

All is not lost. Congratulations on taking the first step by acknowledgeing your mistake. Surrender and return the buttons and we will wipe your record clean.

Does he have all the "No" buttons they seem in short supply?

It'd be funny if there's a global state shared with everyone who has the button stealer extension installed: so if I stole a button, it'd be missing when you visit the page.

It would leave behind an outline of the button, and if you needed to use it you'd have to put up the strongest button from your stash to try to defeat the stolen button in combat. If you weaken the button enough, you can throw a button capsule at it to capture it.