Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

I agree that they should do the opt-in.

I in fact turned on that other Ubuntu checkmark (I think it is part of Synaptic?) to indicate that I can allow them to collect statistics on something (what software I install?). I don't have a problem with this but it is nice that there is an opt-in and it is off by default. I see no reason why they did not do the same thing with this.