Although not widely advertised, Google Finance have added the ability to disable the new automatic dividends feature on a portfolio basis. The announcement is buried in the comments on this
Google Finance Blog post:
The feature can be used on a per-portfolio basis from your 'Edit portfolio' tab. The checkbox to enable and disable it can be found over the 'Save changes' button.
As you can see from the other comments, this was by popular request... Overall, the deployment should have been smoother with this checkbox present from the start; still kudos go to Google Finance for listening to their users - even if that simply means keeping their product usable.
