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

[Oliver Grawert]

Pro is a completely free service for personal and small business use, it gives you security fixes for 25000+ additional packages in universe ... to maintain this, the canonical security team had to be extended .
Maintaining an additional 25k packages comes at a cost, what canonical does here is to make enterprises pay for this additional work to be able to then provide it for free to the community... 

To make sure such enterprises do not grab it for free there needs to be
a control mechanism in place which is why you need to register to get
them.

As of hiding info about open security holes on your system, would you
prefer to rather not know that your wordpress install from universe is
vulnerable in a way a script kiddie can take over your blog site and
show porn pics to the world instead of getting the list of available
fixes during updates ? While ubuntus base system is indeed very secure,
hiding info about open security holes in additional packages and
available fixes for these is surely not a good idea.

I'm sure if anyone has a good suggestion how to better solve the above
the Pro team would love to hear about them in the thread at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pro-faq/34042

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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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