Comment 79 for bug 402767

Adam: not only I agree with you but I tried to raise the question many times. The point in general is that if you state that "most users want something" then it may be argued that only a vocal minority of users is asking that. In this case, it seems even true but this does not change the fact that it is very important to have a commitment to transparency and respect for users privacy in ubuntu.

However, I think that the multi-serarch addon is creating lots of confusion into all of us. It is perfectly reasonable to open the default home page on new tabs, and to open the same search that can be found in the default home page when one uses the default search box! It was an usability problem before that two default searches (the one in the default home page and the google box) returned different results.

The true problem is *the default home page*. This is NOT experimental and has been there since hardy. Therefore here we are reporting two different bugs. The "violates user trust" one is actually a matter of the default home page, it is reported as https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-start-page/+bug/405350.

Please follow up on that bug report, since the real problem is not the multi-search add-on. It is a problem for the "feeling lucky" and related technical problems, but the "political" problem is not a matter of that addon.