How to get rid of the "Can I help" duck?

Question

sharepoint.stackexchange.com now has a "duck". It's either: - spyware - a bad April Fools joke - or just an annoying bad idea.

How can I get rid of it?

Answer 1

@Mods - can you please migrate this question to the SP Meta

@Mike - Its April fools joke part of SO tradition.

Last year it was DDA protocol - Stack Overflow Introduces Dance Dance Authentication

This quack is based on cookies.

You can run the below jQuery snippet to set the cookie value to 1 which will disable the duck.

$(".quackoverflow").hide() && $.cookie("quack",1,{"path":"/","expires":3})

This cookie is site specific and will haunt you on the SO network.

References - Quack Overflow tagged questions

What the duck