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?
Is that a firefox issue? That looks like the context menu that’s used on the whole system
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.
Amazon Smile trades ad views for 1% of their proceeds to a non-profit of your choice (including the FSF, EFF, and more, though I think RMS would have a seizure accepting this money)
Whole Foods gives you significant discounts on hot foods if you scan a QR code from the app (still expensive though).
I don’t use these personally but I can totally see someone using them.
I’m not sure if I understand. Isn’t this a normal thing, Amazon just made it look like you’re normal one, plus “Amazon”? I could be misunderstanding.
You’ve been able to capture and replace context menus in browsers for years. I don’t use them in my development because they’re annoying but this is one that I played with one time:
https://carbon-components-svelte.onrender.com/components/ContextMenu
(The feature has been Dollar Store DRM for years - that’s how you just disable the context menu altogether. “We have DRM at home”- type DRM.)
To be clear, the reason this isn’t common is because of OP’s response – it feels intrusive and the more “value” it adds (ie how customized it is) is proportional to how intrusive it feels.
To make matters worse, as far as I know, you can’t replace the context menu just sometimes, like, it would be cool to just customize options on images for example, or links – but it’s whole page or nothing – so using the feature at all means using it everywhere, and, for me anyway, it’s kind of a lot of effort, which sits on the scale with “intrusive and annoying” to outweigh the value add.
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.
