I have had success with the foil tape. The big problem with tape is that since it's over the hot spot that means the snake will be moving around it and if it came just a little loose, it could attach to your snake.
I have never used the foil take on glass, just a tub. I hot glue the actual probe. If you want to remove it, take the UTH off the rheostat/t-stat and get it as hot as it will go and use a window scraper to carefully remove it. I uses the razor blade window scraper last time and it worked fine.
Hopefully someone else with experience will chime in.
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