Well on the bright side Armory is open source so I forked it on GitHub to remove this behavior.  It looks to be done entirely in a single Python file so you don't even need to rebuild anything to make the change.  Just merge these changes into your announcefetch.py and you should be good to go.

https://github.com/weirddan455/BitcoinArmory/commit/09207dc089facfcea279e485077ed0848491995b