b00n
January 13th, 2014, 11:56 PM
I am installing 13.10 and trying to remove all shopping features. More generally I would like to write a script I can run on every install to
* disable/remove shopping features
* stop sending data
* disable external access
I do not understand the whole schema of things involved, so I'm a little lost about how to proceed.
As a start, I understand I can go to System Settings > Security and Privacy > Search > include online search results > Off.
I'd like to script that, so I do not have to type it every time after an install, instead I want to write a script I can copy to any fresh install, run it, and it just happens.
(Basically, I want to write one script with a bunch of setups stuff like this, this would be just one entry in the script.)
More generally, there's a bunch of things I want to disable, but I'm not even clear how to find them all. For example, l did the above then went to install dconf Editor from Ubuntu Software Center and got many listings for payware. I don't hate shopping, but I'd like to never see payware listings here and I do not understand how to turn them off. (In general I don't even want to see random web-wide freeware here. I'd like to see stuff in a standard Linux repo.)
Also, using dconf editor I see com > canonical > unity > webapps > "preauthroized-domains ['amazon.ca', 'amazon.cn', 'amazon.com', 'amazon.co.uk', ...]" a list that goes on quite a way. I don't know why I am authorizing them, but I am sure I do not want to preauthorize sending or receiving data from them. (In general, even "receiving" is a problem, aside from privacy issues, because I may be on a slow link or a pay-per-byte link.) I want to know about Ubuntu updates, but I certainly do not want to waste pennies on stuff I was not going to use anyway.
And while I can click on com > canonical > unity > webapps > integration-allowed to turn it off (I think), I do not understand either (a) how to purge anything that already got hoovered up, nor (b) how to make a script so that every time I do a clean install I just run the script to turn it off.
Also, in the launcher there's an icon for Amazon. I searched for what it might be -- and what I could sudo apt-get remove so I can script it away -- but I do not find it. Any hints?
* disable/remove shopping features
* stop sending data
* disable external access
I do not understand the whole schema of things involved, so I'm a little lost about how to proceed.
As a start, I understand I can go to System Settings > Security and Privacy > Search > include online search results > Off.
I'd like to script that, so I do not have to type it every time after an install, instead I want to write a script I can copy to any fresh install, run it, and it just happens.
(Basically, I want to write one script with a bunch of setups stuff like this, this would be just one entry in the script.)
More generally, there's a bunch of things I want to disable, but I'm not even clear how to find them all. For example, l did the above then went to install dconf Editor from Ubuntu Software Center and got many listings for payware. I don't hate shopping, but I'd like to never see payware listings here and I do not understand how to turn them off. (In general I don't even want to see random web-wide freeware here. I'd like to see stuff in a standard Linux repo.)
Also, using dconf editor I see com > canonical > unity > webapps > "preauthroized-domains ['amazon.ca', 'amazon.cn', 'amazon.com', 'amazon.co.uk', ...]" a list that goes on quite a way. I don't know why I am authorizing them, but I am sure I do not want to preauthorize sending or receiving data from them. (In general, even "receiving" is a problem, aside from privacy issues, because I may be on a slow link or a pay-per-byte link.) I want to know about Ubuntu updates, but I certainly do not want to waste pennies on stuff I was not going to use anyway.
And while I can click on com > canonical > unity > webapps > integration-allowed to turn it off (I think), I do not understand either (a) how to purge anything that already got hoovered up, nor (b) how to make a script so that every time I do a clean install I just run the script to turn it off.
Also, in the launcher there's an icon for Amazon. I searched for what it might be -- and what I could sudo apt-get remove so I can script it away -- but I do not find it. Any hints?