Any such fees would be used to help support the Ubuntu project, Bacon explained on Sunday, but many users were quick to decry the new feature as adware, causing the scramble at Canonical over the past few days to fix the situation.

'A toggle switch in the settings'

You will be able to disable the feature if you wish, Bacon wrote in a new blog post on Thursday. There is work going on to have a toggle switch in the settings to disable it.

One important caveat, however, is that the toggle switch will affect all online searches, not just those on Amazon, Bacon noted. So, users who want to disable the Amazon results will also have to disable online search across the board, including applications such as microblogging client Gwibber.