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I have a brand new 13.10 install and I want all this shopping spyware nonsense gone. Searching for "Ubuntu shopping spyware nonsense" led me to apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping but I don't actually see a unity-lens-shopping package. How do I remove shopping searches in 13.10?
Update: Is there any way to distinguish the scopes that search remote servers (Ebay, Amazon, AskUbuntu) from the ones that search my local computer? Or do I have to go through them all?
This is not possible with earlier versions of Unity but will be possible in Unity 5.0: see the image in one of the answers here:
To get rid of the "Most frequently used programs" section:
dconf-editor (which is part of the dconf-tools /desktop/unity/lenses/applicationsdisplay-recent-apps box
Related:
I am using 16.04.
Open /usr/share/unity/scopes/applications.scope:
sudo gedit /usr/share/unity/scopes/applications.scope
and remove this:
[Category scopes]
Name=Dash plugins
Icon=/usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/places/svg/group-installed.svg
DedupField=uri
SortField=scope_disabled;title;
ContentType=apps
RendererHint=toggled
Best Answer
You can't remove the Unity Shopping Lens in Ubuntu 13.10 because there's no Shopping lens. Ubuntu 13.10 comes with a feature called Unity Smart Scopes (or "100 scopes") which uses a huge list of scopes to display results in Dash and among these, there are some used for shopping. So if you don't want shopping suggestions in Dash, you must disable these shopping scopes (see below). Unity Dash without shopping suggestions
How to disable Unity Dash plugins (scopes) in Ubuntu 13.10
To disable a Dash plugin (scope) in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander:
All the Dash search plugins (scopes) should be listed.
To disable a plugin, click on it and then click the "Disable" button. Later on you can enable them back in the same way.
Disable the Amazon / shopping suggestions Unity Dash scopes
If you don't want shopping suggestions in Dash, disable the following scopes (by using the instructions above): Amazon, Ebay, Music Store, Popular Tracks Online, Skimlinks, Ubuntu One Music Search and Ubuntu Shop.
To disable all these shopping Dash plugins/scopes from the command line, use the following command