Skyedra / UnspamifyUbuntu

Remove spam from Ubuntu
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Official command to remove the apt news spam #1

Closed bfontaine closed 1 year ago

bfontaine commented 1 year ago

(found via this answer) Surprisingly, there is an official (but undocumented) way to disable the apt news spam:

sudo pro config set apt_news=false
Skyedra commented 1 year ago

Yeah, they begrudgingly added this flag a month after adding the spam, heh 🤦

Personally, I think they'll add more spam over time to the Advantage package and if people keep Advantage installed, there will be more flags to set to disable, resulting in a whack-a-mole approach. But, I do think this is worth including as some people might need to use Advantage for the long term support, so I've updated the page.

Thanks for the suggestion!