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The easiest thing would be to just turn off the internet search option from the dash, or maybe uninstall the Amazon lens (but maybe there are other similar lenses...). Or change from Unity to another Desktop Environment (Gnome, Xfce, KDE, Cinnamon or whatever).

Unless you want to make a statement, then changing the distro might be the gesture you want.




oh good to know that as a Gnome user, I'm at least minimally "in the clear". Thanks!

(I thought the malware component might be in a lower level of the OS than the DE)




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