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submitted 10 months ago by kWazt@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 65 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.

[-] mizzyc@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Their app is an unresponsive heap of burning garbage anyway.

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