No way to mark recommended packages as "not interesting"

[Michael Terry]

There are currently several packages being recommended to me on the welcome screen that I know are not interesting to me.

Things like a Polish subtitle downloader. Or a BBC iPlayer streamer.

In order to get them out of the recommended-for-me section, I imagine I could download them, review them poorly, and then uninstall them. But that seems silly and unfair to the app. Just because I'm not interested doesn't mean it should get a bad review.

So I would like a way to mark an app as "not for me" so it wouldn't show up as a recommendation. This seems like useful data too for the server to generate better recommendations for everyone.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/Recommendations#Customizing>: "On the screen for a recommended item, below the description should be an extra box that describes the single strongest factor in the recommendation, and gives you the option to either remove that recommendation or nullify that factor. For example ... '▶ I’m not interested in BleachBit'"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.