All of a sudden, Amazon search has popped up on the right click contextual menu for me. Haven’t seen it before today. I can’t find a way to remove it either; I’d prefer not to be reminded every time I try to copy something that I can buy Travis County district court on Amazon. I use the app a lot because of Amazon lockers as well as shopping at an Amazon fresh store. So deleting it (which would presumably remove it) really isn’t a great choice for me.

Anyone else encountering this? Any solutions? Thanks for any help.

EDIT: After some great comments, I decided to reininstall/reboot and that seemed to have gotten rid of it. TBD if it comes back though. Would still like to know if it’s possible to adjust that menu. Some apps I use are hidden behind the overflow menu, which would be cool if I could reorganize. Thanks!

SUPA EDIT: Did some more sleuthing and may have found an answer. As I commented here, try putting your app in deep sleep. While it kills all background activity, I think it also stops apps from displaying the problem app’s menu button.

  • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
    113·
    10 months ago

    You where able to create a Lemmy account and a post.

    So please add

    • what OS (OEM Android version)
    • what app
    • why is anything Amazon on your device
    • where is it showing up
    • Klystron@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      316·
      10 months ago

      Always love an adversarial tone when I ask for help. Android 13 on fold 5, every app, answered the other questions already.

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        162·
        10 months ago

        The information he asked for is pretty important to helping you solve your problem. It’s a little annoying to see someone asking for support but not really putting effort into helping others help you.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          Thanks, yes I know that tone sucks but really how should anyone help with that lack of any infos?

          • Klystron@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            110·
            10 months ago

            I mean the question posed I figured you could glean enough that more info would be redundant. I don’t see how Amazon being on a right click menu would be reliant on an OS update. As for what apps it was in, again, I figured since I asked for the right click menu, it would be apparent that every right click menu was showing that, since all apps have that same menu. And the other two questions I had answered already.

            As someone who works in tech support I understand the pain of dealing with uninformed users. I figured though if someone asked a technical question on a site as obscure as Lemmy, on an android forum, that would give some credit to the fact that I’m not just some schmuck with a Galaxy a54. Instead I was getting comments on why I use Amazon. I mean come on lol, not everyone is living a foss/privacy guaranteed life.

            • stockRot@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              10 months ago

              I don’t see how Amazon being on a right click menu would be reliant on an OS update

              No, but an OS update could introduce the framework to allow apps like Amazon to insert a search option

              the fact that I’m not just some schmuck with a Galaxy a54

              Then why are you acting like one?

              • Klystron@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Thanks for the response. I would just like to say even if an update did do that, that still doesn’t have anything to do with how to remove it… When I posted this, I was hoping there was just some setting I was missing.

  • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    I sometimes get “Bing Search” where the usual search should be. Drives me nuts - this is the kind of shit Google should be fixing. But instead they’re cutting off actually useful shit like logcat

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      At this point I’m starting to believe that they’re maliciously complying with European antitrust laws. I remember reading recently that they got a friendly reminder that defaulting to their own search engine is a monopolistic practice and I started noticing this kind of stuff after that

      • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Doesn’t mean they couldn’t include an option for a user to pick a default, though.

        • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Which is why I think this is them doing malicious compliance. “Oh, you didn’t pick a default search engine ? Guess we’ll just use whatever instead of not displaying the search option or prompting you to pick a search engine”

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    Removing any Amazon apps would probably do it, unless you have one of those phones that amazon sells with their own version of Android.

  • SnuggleSnail@ani.socialEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    This is a tragedy for all Texans! Next, they will ban all medical examinations during pregnancies, so something like this will never happen again!

    • odium@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      Ofc it was Travis county (county which Austin is in) that made this ruling. Time to lower the number of voting locations in the county some more. /s