Comment 51 for bug 1054776

@mikelococo , that's not the only related feature that was pushed after feature freeze :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/webapps-applications/+bug/1046840

I guess that they were just late in discussing with Amazon ( because putting adv^W affiliation directly in a OS is something that was never done before ), and that was bad planning.

 Pushing this 6 months in the future mean they will have 6 months less of data to make it useful. From what I gathered, Canonical plan to have better results ( see Mark comment on OMG ubuntu ) and wish to improve the whole system, and for that, they need to gather lots of data. Canonical know what requests are made, but also see what links have been clicked.

If you look at the json output on http://productsearch.ubuntu.com//v1/search?q=windows , you see there is a unique identifier for each request, searching "sex" and "sex andersen" do give the same first result, with a different id.

The id is the same if you do the same request, even from a different ip, so there is for now the minimal amount of tracking needed to improve the system, and that's not linked to a user profile.

So yes, pushing this in FFE was kinda needed.

( as a side note, that also explain why Mark invested into instank ( for ceph ), if they need to store a enormous amount of data, they maybe do not want to use a solution of their competitor like glusterfs )