Finder Recent Folders

Just started making the most out of my computer this week by using terminal. I was wondering if there was a way (prefrences or terminal) to eliminate Finder's (menubar>) Go> Recent Folders option.

System Preferences > General > Number of recent items: set to none.
You might have to go back to Finder > Go Recent Folder and select clear list.

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