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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[โ€“] pfaca@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Is there any benefit for using the app over the site? I stopped using Amazon, but when I did use, the site seemed to work just fine.

[โ€“] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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.