Resolved Any way to remove all of the bloody adverts?

[Gareth Westwood]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 20.04.6

Plesk version and microupdate number

Version 18.0.53 Update #2, last updated on July 5, 2023 05:19 PM

Hey Team,

I'm becoming more and more frustrated with all of the "adverts" (I'm sure plesk call them "trusted 3rd party options that we think you might like" or something similar).

Is there a way that I can prevent some or all of these from getting in the way of the work I want to do?

For example, I want to generate a lets encrypt cert for a domain, I have to scroll past 22 3rd party cert provider boxes to get to the thing I want... It's getting a bit silly.

Any ideas?

 

[Gareth Westwood]

Home screen. Top 1/3 is adverts

 

[Maarten.]

This should work to hide the ads and the Sectigo certs.

Add this to the panel.ini:

[extensions]
blacklist = sectigo

[aps]
serverAppsPromoEnabled = off

[promos]
; Disable other products promotions
enabled = off
pleskFooter = false

If you never used the panel.ini before, this is how it works:

Panel.ini Configuration File

Certain aspects of the behavior of both Plesk and various Plesk extensions cannot be managed via the GUI, XML API, or the command line. Instead, they are governed by entries in the panel.ini configuration file.

docs.plesk.com

 

[Gareth Westwood]

Great response @Maarten thank you.

I have not played with the panel.ini file before but I will be doing in the future!

I added the lines you suggested with 1 modification and 1 addition
I added;
[ext-catalog]
contextAds = off

And "blacklist = sectigo" became "blacklist = sectigo,symantec - DigiCert SSL"

At least for now, that seems to have got rid of most of the "interesting offers" that were being made available.

Thanks again.

 

[Gareth Westwood]

For anyone else wondering. I used the command
sudo plesk bin extension -list
to work out what the other extension was called.