Monday, October 22, 2012

How to Remove Amazon Ads from Ubuntu 12.10



Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" is out, and while it has a few cool features, it also has one very annoying addition: the Dash now includes useless Amazon results in your searches. Here's how to disable them.
We mentioned one way to turn the ads off in Ubuntu's settings, but unfortunately that requires turning off web search entirely—meaning you can't search Google Docs, Flickr, and other services from the Dash. Instead of doing that, reader KatsumeBlisk says you can remove just the Amazon portion with a simple command.

Open a Terminal and run:

 sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
 
Type in your password when prompted, and when it's finished, log out. When you log back in, you should find that the Amazon ads no longer show up, but you can still search other web services right from the Dash.


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