How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash?

Question

How can I disable Amazon search results in the Unity dash?

Answer 1

Click on the Ubuntu button, search for "Privacy" and then turn off "Include online results" :

You can also remove it entirely by clicking on this button, then the orange "Available on the Ubuntu Software Center" button and selecting uninstall:

or via the command line

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

You then need to log out and back in.

Another option would be to move the lens entirely out of the home dash and make it a standalone lens:

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Answer 2

If you don't want online shopping results in your dash but there are times when you want to search the Internet from your queries (for example, while using the Askubuntu scope to the help lens), you may not wish to disable the "Include online search results" item. In that case you may wish to remove particular packages.

Home Lens

For the new dash home lens (default) queries that are forwarded through Canonical to Amazon uninstall unity-lens-shopping.

Either click on the bag icons above and click the Remove button on the right in the Software Center window that appears, or use an alternative of the following command line after bringing up a terminal with Alt+Ctrl+T.

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Or, launch Ubuntu Software Center, click Installed, expand Themes & Tweak, and scroll to the its end. You'll see Shopping lens for unity there (along with a lot of complaints).

Video Lens

For the already existing video lens lookup you can choose the source of searches by using the "Filter Results" item on the top right, and then selecting the sources you want by using the Sources drop down. Alternatively you can uninstall unity-scope-video-remote.

Either click on the bag icons above and click the Remove button on the right in the Software Center window that appears, or use the following command line after bringing up a terminal with Alt+Ctrl+T.

sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-video-remote

Music Lens

As in existing releases, online shopping for music in 12.10 can also go to the Ubuntu One Music Store. To remove that feature click on the bag button for unity-scope-musicstores and click on the Remove button on the right in the Ubuntu Software Center window that appears.

or enter the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores

Answer 3

In addition to the other answers, you can also redirect the queries to another location by changing the URL it uses for the product search:

sudo -s
echo 'OFFERS_URI="https://localhost:0/"' >> /etc/environment

And then restart your session.

Answer 4

With Privacy Indicator you can quickly enable or disable online results:

Answer 5

IF you want to have a Ubuntu LiveCD without Amazon stuff there is a remastering script: http://www.helplinux.ru/wiki/en:kb:make-ubuntu-safe