November 2, 2006

More Obtrusive Ads…

Filed under: Howto, Code, Salesforce.com, The Soapbox — heretic @ 12:11 pm

If users whine to their admins, and SFDC never hears it… did it really happen?

Hot on the heels of the AppExchange intrusive ad is a brand new “Unlimited Edition” advert… Same thing, same obnxious locaiton, new code to disable it:

For instructions on how to use this code, please see my original post on the topic.

<script type="text/javascript">

setCookie('sawBanner', 'unlimitedEdition');

</script>

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11 Comments

  1. I just posted an idea on the ideas exchange to get salesforce to stop. http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/34052/Be_Gone_Sawbanners_Please_Ge_Gone if you want to see about getting SFDC to stop this obtrusive advertising please vote.

    Comment by Fifedog — November 8, 2006 @ 1:07 pm

  2. If you log a ticket with salesforce.com support they will opt you out of the advertising. it turns of the button on the home page “Get Ready for Winter 07″ as well. The secret name is “Hide New Features Image.”

    Comment by heyyou — November 9, 2006 @ 9:30 pm

  3. My site admin told me that he had disabled this, but it’s come back.

    Other elements that I’m currently blocking, to preserve screen real estate:

    https://www.salesforce.com/us/login-messages.jsp?force_ee=true
    https://www.salesforce.com/us/assets/home/home_globe.gif
    https://www.salesforce.com/web-common/assets/dashHR.gif
    https://www.salesforce.com/us/assets/logos/sfdc_223×78.gif
    https://www.salesforce.com/web-common/assets/logos/nosftw_183×60.gif
    https://na2.salesforce.com/img/service_support_logo.gif

    (Yeah, my login page looks a little funny, but since all I want to do on the login page is, well, log in, I don’t care.)

    Comment by Aliza — November 18, 2006 @ 7:07 pm

  4. Note that the sawBanner has been updated (at least in our instance). This old code may not work. I’m having success with a small adjustment to one line of the above code:

    setCookie(’sawBanner’, ’successforce’);

    Comment by Kirk — December 8, 2006 @ 9:48 am

  5. Another update:

    setCookie(’sawBanner’, ’winter07’);

    Comment by Kirk — January 8, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

  6. Salesforce published an appexchange app to remove the ads:
    Saw Banners Be Gone!

    Comment by Spirawk — February 12, 2007 @ 3:56 pm

  7. It’s kind of like the IVR prompts “Press 1 for English, Para Espanol…” Why should we have to press 1?

    Comment by heretic — February 12, 2007 @ 4:07 pm

  8. That link to the appexchange is now dead - they must have removed it altogether. I can’t get a thing searching on anything to with Saw and Banners… sadly.

    Comment by megan — March 6, 2007 @ 8:21 am

  9. Another update:

    setCookie(’sawBanner’, ’spring07′);

    Comment by Kirk — March 6, 2007 @ 2:15 pm

  10. Another update:

    setCookie(’sawBanner’, ’spring07′);

    Comment by Kirk — April 29, 2007 @ 10:47 am

  11. er… make that

    setCookie(’sawBanner’, ‘platform’);

    (and watch those single quotes! you want them ‘ not ’)

    Comment by Kirk — April 29, 2007 @ 10:49 am

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