How To Disable the Amazon Search Ads in Ubuntu at 02:25 Posted by Unknown

When you search something in dash, your search will be sent to 3rd party through Canonical. Third party like Amazon searches related to your search keyword an send them back to you. Amazon sometimes send NSFW(not safe for work) products to your search.

Not So Good Way to Disable Amazon Ads In Ubuntu

1. Go to System Setting.
2. Then Go to privacy. The search results and you will find like this.

Then Turn Off "Include Online Search Results". It will stops Amaon Search Ads but it will also turn off all the suggestions from internet based Unity lenses. you won’t be able to use Wiki lens, weather and news lens  academy lens etc.  I think you can't live without it so I have another method for doing it.

So Good Method For Turning Of Amazon Search Ads In Ubuntu

Open Terminal By pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and Type.

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Type in your password when prompted, and press Y for conformation. Now, 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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