this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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Recently Amazon, I suppose their app, added a search item to my context menu, which is quite a nuisance. Other apps have as well, such as DeepL and Wikipedia, but I believe those have a valid use case without too much of a commercial interest. Is there a way to remove items from the context menu without removing the related app?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's the Amazon app. I noticed the same after I installed the app too.

Note it is an android system wide context menu, not a Firefox menu. If you long press in text in other apps you'll get the same menu.

I can't see any options to turn this off in android. Apparently the app doesn't even need permission to interfere with the system wide context menu in that way.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for explaining!
Now I know it's almost like they're asking for me to uninstall their app!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Their app is an unresponsive heap of burning garbage anyway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Easy solution, uninstall the app. The mobile website works just as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

weirdly enough the mobile site actually works better. You cannot purchase movies or TV shows in the prime video app OR the Amazon shopping app. You can only do it on the mobile website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I switched to just using the mobile website a while back and it's been a perfectly smooth transition. Never noticed a difference except a lack of some creepy vibes from the app lol