Color me ignorant, but which distribution is that?
coughubuntucough
IIRC, they recently discontinued the link and related data sharing though.
It was always possible to uninstall it. Just a nuisance that you have to, while clearly no users ever desired it. It was also terrible that all search requests went plaintext to Amazon.
Ubuntu did some years ago; it did cause some uproar. Just search for "Ubuntu Amazon"