This bug isn't an opinion, it's a proposal for a specific technical
change (to not ship unity-lens-shopping in 12.04). That proposal is
supported by many facts:
1) It's a contentious feature, evidenced by the many "hot" bugs filed.
2) It's proposed for a default-on state in a widely used component (home lens).
3) It has privacy implications when compared to the previous state of home lens
in 12.04. Home lens in 12.04 doesn't send queries to remote servers,
shopping-lens does.
4) Those privacy implications aren't yet addressed by the privacy policy: Bug
#1054741
5) And the privacy implications aren't disclosed upon use of home lens: Bug
#1054782
6) At the time the feature was FFE'd, the opt-out process was undiscoverable
and required uninstalling the feature entirely. There's no way to use shopping
lens at all without sending all your home lens queries to a remote server: Bug
#1054746
7) The feature itself results in a lousy user experience due to poor results
(Bug #1053678) and inappropriate adult results that aren't tied to any age
assertation (Bug #1054282)
8) Despite all of the above, the feature was introduced ***post-freeze*** with
little community review: Bug 1053470 and fast tracked due to executive approval
at Canonical.
It's a fact that this feature was rushed through FFE in spite of
numerous problems. It's a reasonable proposal to react to that fact by
rescinding FFE approval and waiting to ship until 13.04. If that's not
going to happen, mark it wontfix.
** Changed in: unity-lens-shopping (Ubuntu)
Status: Opinion => Confirmed
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