This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app -
0.23+14.10.20140630.1-0ubuntu1
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webbrowser-app (0.23+14.10.20140630.1-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low
[ Olivier Tilloy ]
* Add a user script that prevents so-called "smart banners" generated
by the smartbanner jQuery plugin t
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/utopic-proposed/webbrowser-app
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Title:
CNN.com advertises Google Play app to Ubuntu users
To manage notifications ab
My recommendation is to use the same system used by smartbanner.js which
uses a cookie to detect if the use has already clicked on the close
button so the banner will only show up just after X days.
https://github.com/jasny/jquery.smartbanner/blob/master/jquery.smartbanner.js#L177
https://github.c
The linked branch has a user script that hides and removes the smart
banners generated by the smartbanner jQuery plugin.
The only gotcha with the current implementation is that it doesn’t
actually prevent the banner from being instantiated and inserted in the
DOM in the first place, it merely hide
** Branch linked: lp:~osomon/webbrowser-app/smartbanners
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Title:
CNN.com advertises Google Play app to Ubuntu users
To manage notifications abou
It appears simply removing the "shown" class on the div doesn’t actually
hide it.
The following two alternatives work better:
document.getElementById("smartbanner").style.display = "none";
var smartbanner = document.getElementById("smartbanner");
smartbanner.parentNode.removeChild(sm
Another interesting data point: cnn.com seems to be using the jQuery
smartbanner plugin (http://jasny.github.io/jquery.smartbanner/) to
display the app banner (see
http://z.cdn.turner.com/cnn/tmpl_asset/static/mobile_phone/4009/js
/global-min.js).
The generated div looks like this:
…
So pres
Some more information on this specific case: cnn.com’s main page has
some code like this:
if (window.device.isAndroid) {
$( '.android-link' ).removeClass('hide');
}
where window.device.isAndroid is true whenever the lowercased user-agent string
matches /android/.
So unless we remove the andr
I unmarked this bug as being a duplicate of bug #1328183.
Bug #1328183 is too generic, specific bug reports for individual issues
are a better way of tracking them.
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While the idea of a custom style sheet that hides all blocks that point
to market:// URLs sounds good, unfortunately in this specific instance
it wouldn’t work as the banner is dynamically generated, and the link
doesn’t have a href attribute, instead a very obfuscated onclick handler
is installed
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1328183 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328183
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1328183
User-Agent string results in poor UX on web
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