Remove "Look up" from context menu

This is why people make fun of us as Apple fanboyz. nicolaecarabut may not be the most technical, but he manages to hit on a series of valid annoyances with iOS;

• Safari's annoying URL bar that limits to the domain (hence, him only seeing "apple.com" in the URL bar)
• .DS_Store files polluting your shared drives and folders (not invisible to PC users and others who share with you!)
• The infuriating Look Up "feature". Why can't Apple make a browser plug in like the rest of the world (try Google's Dictionary for Chrome add-on, all you must do is double-click the word for a definition) instead of polluting the context menus?
• Lack of an option to sort folders together in Finder windows. I personally wouldn't enable this, but I hear this a lot from folks moving from PC to Mac.
• Joining Google and Microsoft in making the user the beta tester. At least Google asks me if I want to beta OS software on my Nexus! Apple just pushes out Sierra and it's up to me to figure out why all my business/technical apps like VMWare Fusion, Pulse Secure, Self Service, Hipchat have stopped working.

Why is this the accepted solution?

None of the original questions have been answered.

If you had read the Apple Support Communities Use Agreement when you signed up for these forums you would have know it was a user to user forums. The following is from that document:

6 - Apple involvement. Apple may respond to questions but does not formally provide technical support on the Site. Any information that is provided by Apple or Apple employees is offered on an "AS IS" basis without warranties of any kind.

The following is from this article: What is a .DS_Store File:

What is a .DS_Store file? What does a DS_Store file do?

.DS_Store files are used by Mac OS X to store folder specific metadata information. They are created in every folder that Mac OS X Finder accesses, even network volumes and external devices. Folder level customizations are stored in the DS_Store file, things like custom icons, icon placement, icon size, window placement, list views, custom background pictures or colors, etc. DS_Store files are intended to be unobtrusive, which is why they have a . in front of their name, which indicates to UNIX file systems that the file is invisible.

It's an integral part of the system and not put there by Apple to insult your intelligence. Where would you ever get that idea? You should not even see it unless you make invisible files visible.

This is a user-to-user forum for people who need help with technical problems relating to their computers or OS X as software. It's not a place for ranting, no matter how satisfying it might feel to do so. We can't do anything about rants. You can leave Apple feedback if you like, and I'll provide the link below. They won't respond, but you might feel better when you're done.

To answer your question, no, I don't think you can disable or remove the "Lookup" function. It's not there to insult your intelligence or make you feel stupid or anything else of the like. It's there because sometimes we'll come upon words we don't know the definition of. It's an easy, quick way to go into Dictionary and find out the meaning of something. No more, no less.

http://www.apple.com/feedback

The fact the name of the site is "Apple Support Communities" should have been your first clue that Apple users were the ones giving the support. The fact "apple.com" is in the URL doesn't mean that you're speaking to Apple employees or Apple developers. You could take your computer to an Apple store and ask to speak to someone at the Genius Bar, but those are Apple users too. You're not going to find a site where you can speak to Tim Cook directly.

If your computer is "failing at simple things," it would behoove you to explain, in detail, what those failures are, and then tell us what you've done to this point to try and fix it. If your feedback never got addressed, it's probably because you didn't provide enough information to get help.

aaronbauman wrote:

Why is this the accepted solution?

None of the original questions have been answered.

You would need to ask the original poster that as they are the only ones who can mark a thread "Solved".

And at least some of the original questions were answered. pinkstones answered the title question about whether or not "Look up..." could be removed (it can't). And Old Toad explained what .ds_store files are.

@genem wrote:

This is why people make fun of us as Apple fanboyz. nicolaecarabut may not be the most technical, but he manages to hit on a series of valid annoyances with iOS;

Do you have a technical support question that we, your fellow users, can help you with? If not, you're probably in the wrong place. If you need technical support from Apple, use the Support link at the top of the page. If you would like to let Apple, who is not reading here, know how you feel, use the feedback link already provided.