And it's also quite trivial to uninstall the amazon lens. This is the sort of control things like iOS don't give you, and Win8 is stupidly moving in that direction.
I'd prefer not to use a distro with ads on the whole, I had Mint during "special search" and it was not trivial to remove and it did degrade regular searches by a lot. Once bitten...
But this is a great point -- not only does a walled garden keep some flowers out, it keeps some weeds in.
