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This is a simple stripped-down version of a script that appears in the github page of spotify-adblock in order to remove the annoying ad banner in Spotify. This is only a (hopefully, welcome) visual change and does not remove the ads themselves - for this, you have to additionally use the spotify-adblock(-git) package.

@coxackie All good now! =)

@sjclayton sorry about the situation, could you check now?

@coxackie Cannot upgrade from 5-1 to 6-1, it seems one of your md5 hashes must be wrong in the new PKGBUILD. I get the following error when attempting to upgrade:

==> Validating source files with md5sums... spotify-remove-ad-banner.hook ... Passed remove.sh ... FAILED restore.sh ... Passed ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check! -> error making: spotify-remove-ad-banner-exit status 1 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: spotify-remove-ad-banner - exit status 1

@coxackie, have you taken a look into the SpotX for Bash project? I know basically nothing about AUR packaging, but I wonder if we could somehow integrate the installation of this script into an updateable aur package that can update whenever a new version of the spotify AUR package drops.

https://github.com/jetfir3/SpotX-Bash

Anyone figure out how to remove the upgrade button on 1.2.9.743-1 yet?

It seems the code has changed significantly, and even though I can find references to lines such as shouldShowUpgradeButton:i, I'm not sure how to remove it.

It seems like the ad banner is still easy pickings, a simple adsEnabled !0 to adsEnabled !1 swap.

@coxackie, thanks for creating AUR package, very helpful, finally nothing covers playlists!

@Sanras, thanks for the tip how to remove "upgrade button".

For those who want to, but don't know how to remove "upgrade button", just peek at "remove.sh" file and you will find out, that you can unzip xpui.js from xpui.spa, manually remove i().createElement($w,{spec:w,onClick:C,className:zN.Z.UpgradeButton}), and insert modified file back into xpui.spa :)

@coxackie, on the latest version of Spotify for Linux (1.1.84.716-2), the Upgrade button can be removed by deleting this line in xpui.js - i().createElement($w,{spec:w,onClick:C,className:zN.Z.UpgradeButton}),

@kr0wx1 unfortunately, with every update of the spotify package the way to remove the upgrade button is changed in the xpui.js file. I cannot put the effort to chase it down every time. I will just remove this broken functionality - realistically speaking, the ad banner is much more annoying than the upgrade button.

Hey friend! thanks for making this AUR package... but it just removes the empty ad placeholder and it won't remove the upgrade button! I mean the script for removing empty ad banner is just easy and understandable I did it myself before but this package wont remove the upgrade button but you said it does! can you pls tell me how? :(

@Sanras please check the new version - I think it works in removing the "Upgrade" button as well. Just to ensure you check properly: please install this after a clean installation of spotify, i.e., xpui.spa should not have been altered by you before.