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by dhosek 1677 days ago
I avoid Chrome whenever possible. It's a battery and privacy killer. Search field worked fine in Safari.
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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.
People don't want to install an extension!!

Once installed, an extension can be updated to do bad things.

Open source or otherwise, people don't want extensions. Stand on the merit of your website rather than trying to force people to install an extension.