Comment 78 for bug 402767

> The majority of users will consider
> a stupid issue to care about that.

How do you know that? Canonical hasn't asked anyone what they think. Canonical doesn't seem to care, at the moment, about what most users think about privacy.

> Microsoft for example typically uses the default browser page to
> publicise their services

Thank goodness this isn't Microsoft, because if it were, we couldn't even try to convince them to remove such a ridiculous "feature".

Point is, there should be a mechanism to figure out what the user wants, much like the popularity contest currently does. This could be accomplished by moving this extension into another package that is tracked by the popularity contest. This would make it easy to remove and thus placate that "vocal minority" and also communicate to canonical how many people keep this extension installed. It would solve this problem while still giving Canonical revenue.