Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App

Re:Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App by fctorial on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:00AM (#22158262)

I don't understand the rage. It's a shortcut that opens amazon.com in a browser. It queries location, for opening the local amazon site, but that could be avoided by disabling geoclue.

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Re:Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App by Maakuth on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:03AM (#22158271)

The default was to submit all Unity launcher searches to Amazon to populate the desktop search with items sold in Amazon.

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Re:Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App by m45t3r on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:08AM (#22158295)

This was the shortcut to Amazon website, not the search lens that already died in the transition from Unity to Gnome.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-removes-the-amazo...

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Re:Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App by Maakuth on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:35AM (#22158402)

Thanks for the correction. Probably others have also confused these two features.

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Re:Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App by djsumdog on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:24AM (#22158350)

Yeah, it was originally very Windows 10

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Re:Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App by bayindirh on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:41AM (#22158443)

Because it hints presence of a bigger iceberg beneath that harmless looking tip.

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