This new pro command is included in a package called ubuntu-advantage-tools. You might think that one way to permanently prevent these messages would be to remove the package that provides the Ubuntu Advantage integration – but you can't. As Ubuntu bug #1950692 describes, the Advantage Tools package is now a requirement of the core ubuntu-minimal metapackage, so if you remove it, it will remove multiple other core packages. Ubuntu and Debian developer Steve Langasek defended the decision to make the package a dependency on the ubuntu-devel mailing list.

This is not the only bug report referring to the issue: bug #1992026 is about the additional output, and in a comment there, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth defends the move.

For Linux users seeking to move away from telemetry-riddled proprietary OSes, these moves won't win Canonical any friends, and we suspect that removing this functionality represents an opportunity for the many distros out there derived from Ubuntu. As with any monetization effort, Canonical has to weigh up the trade-offs: getting some more revenue, versus alienating users and driving them to move to other distros. One might have thought that Canonical would have worked this out after the first such revolt, a decade ago.

Also, of course, another option is to track the short-term releases of Ubuntu. Only LTS versions are eligible for Ubuntu Pro cover, so if you don't run LTS versions, then you'll only get messages about it for ¾ of each two-year release cycle.

We feel it also bears repeating that only the official GNOME flavor agencias compra venta of Ubuntu gets the full five years of support, plus five extra years via Ubuntu Pro. If you run one of the remixes, you should upgrade your machines every time a new LTS version is released. For instance, in the release notes for Kubuntu 22.04, the oldest remix of them all, it clearly says: