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You know what I hate about google search possibly most of all? It doesn't list the actual URLs as hyperlinks. It lists part of them, and then has a google tra

by mises 7y ago

You know what I hate about google search possibly most of all? It doesn't list the actual URLs as hyperlinks. It lists part of them, and then has a google tracking URL as an actual link. Some times, I want to copy a URL without visiting it to use elsewhere. Sometimes, clicking it will cause the page to redirect, meaning I have to copy really quickly. I wish they would stop doing this. For reference, you have to right-click and go to "copy link location"; then paste, and you will see.

lozenge 7y ago
That is how they know which results are good and which send people straight back to the results page. And, it's going away thanks to the new "ping" HTML attribute.
- mises 7y ago
  Yikes; I hadn't heard about this. Does uBlock origin stop this? I certainly don't want my browser doing it.
  - lozenge 7y ago
    I don't know, but how is it different from an onclick/onmouseover handler or a redirect uri from a privacy perspective?
  - rcxdude 7y ago
    Firefox doesn't have it enabled by default: you need to set a config variable for it to do anything.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
  "ping" died years ago, what are you talking about? https://stackoverflow.com/a/22434264/1075909 https://stackoverflow.com/a/22434264/1075909
  - lozenge 7y ago
    Chrome, Safari and Edge still support it - 87% according to caniuse.com
  - dbbk 7y ago
    It's very much still alive, it recently got added to Edge for example: https://caniuse.com/#feat=ping https://caniuse.com/#feat=ping It got removed from the W3C spec, but it's still in WHATWG which is generally considered the canonical spec anyway.