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How to make the contact details popup go away

Anyone else figured out what info they want to remove it?

         

leadegroot

2:55 am on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I'm naively assuming everyone is seeing this and they aren't just targtting me :) - a multi-part popup that says, in part:
Get the most out of Google AdSense!
To make it easy for you to receive emails at your preferred email contact address and to choose what types of emails you’d like to receive from our team, we’ve designed this short wizard to guide you.
as a popup over the screen.
I've closed it a lot of times, but finally got so sick of it that I went in and gave them a name to ask for and my phone number.
I didn't want to, but the popup was really annoying me.
But the wretched thing is still there! Ahhhh!
Has anyone figured out the full set of details they want to know so the popup goes away?
#nothappyjan

icedowl

3:58 am on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I've never seen that (yet). Good luck with getting it to go away.

leadegroot

4:15 am on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

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oh no... :(
(thanks icedowl)

Leosghost

4:38 am on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I've had it appear..I click to make it go away ( "skip" ) ..it asks "am I sure".. ""blah blah..
and then it makes me "sign in" again..says that I'm signed in to an "account"..but not to adsense..then after the second sign in ..I'm in..:)

I have a feeling the wording they use "hints" that it might be mandatory soon..they actually have one of my cell numbers ( android ) and my one remaining gmail account is active on it.. but they don't seem to have "joined the dots"..

and I'm not gong to help them unless they really insist..if ( maybe when ) they insist on a G+ account ..I'll leave adsense, I'd miss the money, but as I'm sure that one day they'll make all G+ account holder data public..and searchable.. real names and all..then I won't ever be joining G+..

netmeg

3:12 pm on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I don't see this, although I do occasionally get prodded to give them my cell phone mobile "for extra security" on my Google account. The link to skip this process is in about a 8px font; very hard to find, but I always "skip" and then tweet loudly at Google that my cell phone number is (not provided)

which is only relevant if you follow your organic analytics much

leadegroot

3:07 am on May 18, 2012 (gmt 0)

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and I opened Adsense in a new window (I leave windows open for a long time normally, but I thought I'd take a screencap to show you and a new window was for less chrome) and its gone away - Hallelujah! :)
(How sad that I am so easy to make happy... just don't bug me...)

leosghost: yeah, I gave them a position title rather than a name and a mobile (cell) phone number that is rarely turned on ;)

Forced G+? I don't see the point - yeah, I can create an account to match the company adsense login if they want, I don't care! I'm never going to actually visit G+ on that account though...

IanCP

6:49 am on May 18, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Never seen it BUT I rarely mouseover AdSense, much rarely click.

leadegroot

7:54 am on May 18, 2012 (gmt 0)

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No, no, Ian - this was in the adsense reporting interface.
(and it hasn't come back! After all these days - all I had to do was open a new window. I shall remember...)

lucy24

7:45 pm on May 18, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I do occasionally get prodded to give them my cell phone mobile "for extra security" on my Google account. The link to skip this process is in about a 8px font

... and that's why every time I get a new browser, one of the first things I do is find the Minimum Size option and set it to 9pt :)

Now, if everyone used the same shade of unreadable grey type, you could override that too with a single line in a custom style sheet...

JCKline

9:26 pm on May 18, 2012 (gmt 0)

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I haven't seen this either, but I do get the annoying "protect your account, give us your cell number" garbage that nEtmeg mentioned. See what I did netmeg? No "U" here.

netmeg

11:41 am on May 19, 2012 (gmt 0)

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ork ork thanks