Well, that's fine, but all the issues being reported here are due to Chrome users seeing the same thing - inability to use You.com unless you install an even larger potential privacy killer in the form of an extension. Otherwise it refuses to let you search using the on page bar.
Not all extensions are the same.
I understand healthy skepticism since there are a ton of sketchy extensions out there.
We will open source it in the next few hours since 80% of comments here are just about this extension :D
It's 33kB and a dead simple change in one setting.