Objection to Zoho advertising banners on user dashboards without option to remove

I have just had a chat with Zoho Inventory support regarding this issue, asking how I can remove a banner that has appeared on ALL our user dashboards advertising an upcoming Zoho webinar, and not for the first time, have been told there is no option to remove it.

This really gets on my goat, and for me, it is totally unacceptable that as the admin and owner of my business (and Zoho's paying customer), that I do not have any say-so as to whether this advertising is appropriate to be flashed across the dashboards of all users within my organisation, regardless of any relevance to them in their roles or not.

As I explained to the person on the chat, I don't think it is at all appropriate, nor professional, for Zoho to be arbitrarily deciding to make their advertising banners visible to all users within my organisation, without any approval from me, or an option for me to control this as I would like in my business. There should at least be an option within the 'dashboard' section of the user/role settings for this to be restricted and/or disabled.

Perhaps in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter too much, and I can understand people may see it differently, but for me, it's a matter of principle ... It's my business, I am paying the subscriptions to use the Zoho software, and it is NOT up to Zoho to decide to use the dashboards within my business operation as their advertising platform at their whim!

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