disable social networking component preference

[will47]

I would really like it if Chow would add a feature to disable all the new "social networking" buttons and that awful sidebar. I get the urge to try and be more hip, but some of us don't want to twitter, like, etc.

It should be trivial to make this a configurable option.

[Midlife]

Read through this topic and you should be able to disable it yourself. I did.

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/781092

[will47]

Yeah - I don't use adblock or similar extensions, though. Does this remove "CONNECT WITH CHOW", or just the bar on the left?

[Midlife]

It removed all the new "floating" social networking links that appeared at the left.

[linguafood]

It should be just as easy to ignore the side bar.

[will47]

It's not just as easy for me, because implementing such a feature is something someone else would have to do, whereas ignoring the side bar is something I have to do.