Comment 20 for bug 402767

Alexander:

You stated that Multisearch is "something that is just used during alpha3-4 cycle to understand better how our users (would) use the various search places." Can I get a clear explanation of what Multisearch actually does? This statement makes it sound as if you are attempting to track our search results, and in that case, without an opt-in, this sounds like an invasion of privacy. However, that statement was vague enough that I don't want to accuse you of anything, because I could be far off the mark in this interpretation.

Also, in the future, before rolling out a modification to users' web browsers meant to collect experimental data, please consider at least some explanation of what is going on first. There would be considerably less vitriol if someone had notified the users that Multisearch was meant to be temporary and was not meant to reflect the final state of any modification to Firefox that Ubuntu may use. If you had even made the extension voluntary and asked for help among alpha testers, I'd think you would have had plenty of testers lined up for something that requires so little user effort.