[keithpeter]

"And in latest versions option to disable was removed"

Nope, wrong way round. After the - er - strong reaction to the original appearance of the Amazon feature, later versions had a kill switch under Privacy. It was always possible simply to uninstall the appropriate package.

[gcb0]

when first introduced you could disable Amazon and keep useful ones like Flickr.

Layer you could only disable all. To disable only Amazon you had to remove a package or something.