diff --git a/src/app/services/provider/storyboard_api_base.js b/src/app/services/provider/storyboard_api_base.js
index 73511c1a..35f25a0d 100644
--- a/src/app/services/provider/storyboard_api_base.js
+++ b/src/app/services/provider/storyboard_api_base.js
@@ -15,38 +15,10 @@
  */
 
 /**
- * This provider attempts to discover the API URI base for storyboard, by
- * checking various expected configuration parameters.
+ * This provider injects a sane default for the storyboardApiBase property. It
+ * may be overridden simply by injecting a constant of the same name in any
+ * module which lists sb.services as a dependency.
  *
  * @author Michael Krotscheck
  */
-angular.module('sb.services')
-    .config(function ($provide, $injector) {
-        'use strict';
-
-        var propertyName = 'storyboardApiBase';
-
-        // First to see whether something's already been injected.
-        if ($injector.has(propertyName)) {
-            // We've already got one, exit.
-            return;
-        }
-
-        // Do we have a global ENV property with something we can use?
-        if (window.hasOwnProperty('ENV')) {
-            var ENV = window.ENV;
-            if (ENV !== null && ENV.hasOwnProperty(propertyName)) {
-                $provide.constant(propertyName, ENV[propertyName]);
-                return;
-            }
-        }
-        // If there is a <base> tag, then we can use that.
-        if (document.getElementsByTagName('base').length > 0) {
-            $provide.constant(propertyName, '');
-            return;
-        }
-
-        // Neither of those work, so default to something sane on the current
-        // domain
-        $provide.constant(propertyName, '/api/v1');
-    });
+angular.module('sb.services').constant('storyboardApiBase', '/api/v1');
diff --git a/test/unit/services/provider/storyboard_api_base_test.js b/test/unit/services/provider/storyboard_api_base_test.js
index 4d6e13a7..b7fc1fe5 100644
--- a/test/unit/services/provider/storyboard_api_base_test.js
+++ b/test/unit/services/provider/storyboard_api_base_test.js
@@ -29,20 +29,6 @@ describe('storyboardApiBase', function () {
         });
     });
 
-    it('should detect a value in window.ENV', function () {
-        window.ENV = {
-            storyboardApiBase: 'https://localhost:8080/api/v1'
-        };
-
-        module('sb.services');
-
-        inject(function (storyboardApiBase) {
-            expect(storyboardApiBase).toEqual('https://localhost:8080/api/v1');
-        });
-
-        delete window.ENV;
-    });
-
     it('should defer to properties injected at the parent level.', function () {
         angular.module('testModule', ['sb.services'])
             .config(function ($provide) {