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Anonymous
October 8, 2015
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Remove the Stock advert banner under the Apps tab

  • October 8, 2015
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Hi,

I'm subscribed to CC for a year. And just recently, Adove Creative Cloud Desktop in OS X started to display an advert banner for Adobe Stock, under the Apps tab, within the Creative Cloud Desktop app in the Menu Bar.

Moreover, when I open the app for the first time after each startup, I'm directed to the Stock tab, which I don't want to use. I just want to open or update my applications that's it.

The thing is I'm not subscribed to Stock, and I don't plan to get a plan for it anytime soon. So I don't have any use for this advert right in my Menu Bar.

For now I think I will not allow the app to load at launch, and I'm just going to stick to OS X Launchpad to start my applications.

Nonetheless, that would be realy appreciated if I could find a way to disable this function, as I like to have my system clean from adverts right in my Menu Bar.

Thank you

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    Adobe product developers don't lurk in these user-to-user communities.

     

    Please leave feedback & feature requests on Adobe UserVoice where they'll see them.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

     

    Thank you.

     

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    September 21, 2021

    Adobe product developers don't lurk in these user-to-user communities.

     

    Please leave feedback & feature requests on Adobe UserVoice where they'll see them.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

     

    Thank you.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    samfixer
    Participant
    July 3, 2020

    Anyone managed to apply the fix?

     

    Sam

    TofuRobot
    TofuRobot
    Participating Frequently
    September 17, 2020

    Yep - worked great! Thanks for sharing this with everyone!

     

    I expect that I might have to re-add this fix after every CC update, but time will tell.

      TofuRobot
      TofuRobot
      Participating Frequently
      September 20, 2021

      Yep, every Creative Cloud update forces this annoying Adobe Stock advertisement back in your face.

       

      It's obvious why the team in charge of this is doing this, but it's a shameful move.

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      samfixer
      Participant
      July 2, 2020

      You can also remove the banners above the other categories, but they are less intrusive.

      If you want to, just use this line in the index.html:

       

      <style> .search-banner-item-layout, .default-banner-item-layout { display:none !important;} </style>

       

      Sam

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      Nick Anthony Cuccia
      Known Participant
      June 3, 2018

      Some of us can’t afford to go, but perhaps some creatives can get together and stage a protest/confrontation at Adobe Max this fall. T-shirt’s? Buttons? Signs? Protesting the cheesy stock photo banner ads? They expect their high-paying fans to behave like good lemmings; but what about signs going up in the audience at the start of big sessions? ‘60s-style chants, anyone?

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      samfixer
      Participant
      July 2, 2020

      Hi all,

       

      I've hidden the stock banner by just adding a single css line into the top level page of the application.
      It's pretty easy for anyone to do.


      Instructions

      1. Make sure you exit Adobe Creative Cloud from the file menu so it's really not running.
      2. On windows find the location of Adobe Creative Desktop. It should be something like : C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\AAC
      3. Open the 'resources' folder and find the file index.html.
      4. Make a backup of the file! (you'll need to be an admin) and then open the original in a plain text editor.
      5. Add this line to the end of the head section of the page (just above the </head> tag)
        <style> .search-banner-item-layout { display:none !important; } </style>
      6. Save the file (again, you'll need to be an admin).
      7. Restart Adobe Creative Cloud, and the Stock banner should be gone. Hooray!

       

      If you want to undo the change (or it all went wrong) just replace it with your backup copy. Sorry, I can't help on a Mac, but it shouldn't be too different.

       

      Hope this helps some people,

       

      Sam

        terenceb92464709
        terenceb92464709
        Participant
        March 23, 2018

        I doubt whether anyone in Adobe Management reads this post or even gives a damn.

        Adobe is just another organisation run to benefit shareholders - not customers - even though

        we generously paid them $7.3 billion last year alone.

        I have been a customer since 1996.

        & have written two letters of complaint to

        Shantanu Narayan - CEO

        Adobe Systems Incorporated

        345 Park Avenue

        San Jose, CA 95110-2704

        So far no reply

        If any of you live in San Jose you might like to visit them and suggest they try behaving in a civilised manner.

        I believe there is a shareholders' meeting planned for April.

        That is usually the best place to stand up and be rude.

        It helps if you can get 3 or 4 friends together and scatter yourselves among the audience.

        It is a bit difficult for me to attend as I live in Australia.

        Meanwhile there is a very good alternative for $79.99

        Special Offer on ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1

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          eduardof95281367
          Participant
          March 24, 2018

          You are completely right, on our side we are thinking to switch to Affinity for mac.

          Since we updated to cc 2018 it’s literally impossible to work with Adobe’s softwares, we have latest mac models full equiped and too often suffer from waiting times in between two clicks. And this waiting times cost us money.

          We even did a full clean OS reinstall in our Macs and reinstalled the CC. No improvements.

          This is why we are starting to think about switching to Affinity. And they don’t bother you with the iSotck ads...

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            eduardof95281367
            Participant
            March 23, 2018

            We've being using the Adobe Cloud license since we opened our studio.

            Now we have to deal with the Stock ads and also the adobe stock pictures search field in softwares we pay for.

            This is not acceptable. Adobe Cloud is not a "freemium" service, but a paying one.

            On our side we are very disappointed that topics raised almost 3 years ago are intentionally ignored by Adobe, who are only concerned about selling more and giving less.

            I have a couple of simple suggestions to Adobe :

            - First of all:  stop insulting legal consumers that want to pay for using your products.

            - Second and last suggestion : optimize your damn software to stop taking all the ressources available. Each time we decide to make a product update we just feel our macs slower...  and the only solution provided by Adobe is : "reset your software preferences"...

            If you keep on going into this "business development" line, we will be forced to go to your competitors, which are cheaper, more performant and less intrussive, and of course we will encourage everyone to do the same.

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              tfacquire
              Participant
              February 11, 2018

              I am tempted to cancel Photoshop CC over this totally uncalled-for intrusion into my workspace. I subscribed yesterday, and already it's that annoying.

              Why has Adobe NOT ADDRESSED this obviously odious situation? It makes the "concern team" appear to be a name-only non-staffed function.

                mihkelronk
                mihkelronk
                Participant
                December 30, 2017

                Tried creating a new discussion. Got deleted for some reason...

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                JFG5
                Inspiring
                December 30, 2017

                Marketing greed rules the world and Adobe is as crass and greedy as anyone out there, sticking a thumb in everyone's eye every time they use their products with CC. Way to provide life support for this sickly, dead horse product!

                Adobe is invading my personal workspace with NO permission whatsoever.

                Where does this stop? Will Adobe pop up an ad every time I make a new ID, Photoshop, Illustrator file? Will you embed it in the file so my clients have to see it too? Microsoft has a cloud suite, too...

                Keep on irritating your base, Adobe -- many times, every day -- but take a minute and remember Quark. Some one will eat your lunch and I can't wait to be a beta tester.

                On the other hand, you could just GET OUT OF MY DESKTOP!

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                  kibs
                  Participant
                  December 22, 2017

                  Similarly, defaulting to Market under Assets, instead of Files. Adobe seems so desperate these days. Really not an indicator of a user-centric company. I guess we can all consider Adobe a software company of the past.

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