title: SharePoint 2010 v4.master inheritance
body: <p>I made a change to my v4 master at the application level to hide a certain piece of HTML code (the developer dashboard to be specific).  I assumed I could edit it at the application level and then all site collections created within that application would inherit the changed v4 master and hide the element.</p>
  
  <p>This is not the case though... in addition, I tried to edit the master in 14\TEMPLATES\LAYOUTS with no success either.</p>
  
  <p>The only thing I have gotten to work is editing the v4 in SP designer at the site level (which is unaccepable to me as I want to provision a new site collection and not have to manually change this every time).</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions / known fixes for the issue I am encountering?</p>