[gorhill]

> All the "keylogger" stuff is just rumors started by people who are either incapable of reading a sentence from start to end or are knowingly lying about it

I went ahead and looked at the code after downloading the zipped extension you linked too, and I effectively cannot see anything re. key logger. Where was that first reported? I would like to ask the original reporter on what piece of code he based his conclusion that there was a key logger in there.

Edit: Never mind, I see this apparently comes from original poster on google groups, so I asked him exactly how he came to this conclusion.

[prafuitu]

Ok, that guy just explained what he meant by keylogging. Leaving aside the fact that he's wrong about how it all works (the results are provided by Google; nothing about the search was changed by the extension) and he never ever looked at the source code and what it is doing (probably because he's too dumb to understand any of it), what he means by keylogging is adding the search terms to the URL query string when clicking on a link. (Ex: www.ecosia.org/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmicrosoftstore.com&v=microsoft store <- this italic text right here is the result of the keylogger in his opinion)

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/mlAD1ygc...

So, this is what caused all this shit storm...