{"id":40,"date":"2013-05-01T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-01-17T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T04:54:49","slug":"removing-the-adware-that-ships-with-stock-ubuntu-12-10-and-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Removing the adware that ships with stock Ubuntu 12.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is here more as a reference for me and anyone else that sees the annoying ads that appear in the launch page on recent ubuntu versions.<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping<\/pre>\n<p>The fact that this needs to be done on every new install of Ubuntu is a <strong><em>catastrophic<\/em><\/strong> fail, and canonical should be deeply ashamed of themselves for causing this embarrassment to Linux advocacy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ubuntu-amazon-adware-fail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"  wp-image-42\" title=\"ubuntu-amazon-adware-fail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ubuntu-amazon-adware-fail.jpg\" alt=\"ubuntu clean install adware\" width=\"729\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ubuntu-amazon-adware-fail.jpg 911w, https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ubuntu-amazon-adware-fail-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">screenshot example of the advertising built into stock ubuntu launch menu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is here more as a reference for me and anyone else that sees the annoying ads that appear in the launch page on recent ubuntu versions. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping The fact that this needs to be done on every new install of Ubuntu is a catastrophic fail, and canonical should be deeply ashamed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Removing the adware that ships with stock Ubuntu 12.10&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snargawok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabawok.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}