[Bug 2047778] Re: Software Updater unable to cancel Ubuntu Pro upgrade

[c_starchaser]

"and the UI is there to help users to discover it and allow those who want to opt in for more security fixes"  ...  and to nag to death those who, like me, don't opt in ...
I remind you of the only two buttons:  [Enable Ubuntu Pro]  [Remind Me Later]  ...  Thats it!
That is NOT what an OPTION looks like to me.

I have an issue, in general, with using "security" as wholesale
justification for anything the powers that be want to impose.  It took
me months, for example, to get my change of address submitted to
government agencies here in Canada, because their security questions
were so difficult I could never get through.  For another example, I
called my credit card for a minor issue and after several questions
requiring literally photographic memory from me, they told me I did not
pass the security requirements and they terminated the communication.
I'm personally FED UP with security.  I prefer INsecurity to the life of
complications that security measures are imposing on me.  Furthermore,
most of these security measures are there NOT to increase security but
to just PRETEND TO.  Because it's not like some hacker is going to call
my credit card company pretending to be me;  what a hacker does is hack
the credit card company's own computers and they steal tens of millions
of accounts at once.  And with credit cards it is even easier, as all
they need is the numbers and can charge anything they want.  Just saying
that, in general, ANYTHING being pushed down my throat or up my nose in
the name of security is highly suspect.

And here it is no different, from my perspective.  What is all this
business about packages in "universe" not having security updates, but
then Canonical coming up with those security updates which they were not
responsible for but did it anyways, and incurred expenses paying
software engineers' salaries ... right in the midst of FOSS country ...
"Oh, but for You it's Free!!!" BS.  Well, I don't really want to read
three books and a million articles to try an understand this whole
complicate debacle;  just let me have the IN-security that I'm used to
and love;  thank you very much.

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Title:
  Software Updater unable to cancel Ubuntu Pro upgrade

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
   Every time I invoke Software Updater I get a list of Ubuntu Pro security updates, and a message at the bottom that for those updates I need to enable Ubuntu Pro, with only one other button to choose, "Remind Me Later".  I searched for Ubuntu Pro to find out what it is, and came to the conclusion that I do not want it;  but there seems to nowhere be any means to permanently reject its installation.  Every time I reboot the computer I get the same files offered again, and the only options again are to enable Pro or be reminded later, neither of which options reflects my will and desire.  Is this an option, as it seems to be dressed up to be?, or is it a MANDATORY upgrade?  My experience as a user is one of confusion.
    (I can still upgrade my packages through Muon Package Manager, though;  but Software Updater appears to have been rendered permanently useless by this persistent nag.)
    Perhaps this is very poor and misguided marketing trick;  rather than a software bug.
    What IS a bug, however, is the inability for a user to block a package or upgrade through the Software Updater interface.  This permanent nag with Ubuntu Pro points to a deficiency in Software Updater.  There ought to be a way to say NO to an upgrade in a way that sticks.

  Info:
  My computer is an old Lenovo T440 laptop.
  ~$ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
  Release:        22.04
  Codename:       jammy
  Using Lubuntu desktop.

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