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I find this annoying and noticed this change a year or so ago. Google used to just give you the (as far as I could tell) unadulterated link. In fact, at the tim
by sleavey 6y ago
I find this annoying and noticed this change a year or so ago. Google used to just give you the (as far as I could tell) unadulterated link. In fact, at the time I wondered how/if Google were actually able to track how many people clicked the top link in the results, because it seemed to be the real URL and stayed real even when clicked. I figured they either had so much faith in PageRank that they didn't need to monitor clicks, or they were hiding their tracking in a less obvious way.
Anyway, does anyone know a way in Firefox to stop sites from changing a URL's target when it gets clicked? This seems like it should be an about:config option.
- dangrossman 6y agoYou may have noticed it a year ago but Google's been doing this redirect in their search results for 5+ years.
- sleavey 6y agoPerhaps it's been that long after all, or, perhaps Firefox only started changing the target URL in the status box at the bottom left of the screen to the injected one in the past year or so?
- ffpip 6y agoIf you use uBlock Origin, add these (some reddit user suggested it, and it works) https://pastebin.com/M6Jah286 https://pastebin.com/M6Jah286
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- sleavey 6y agoThat worked, thanks! I also added it for google.co.uk and it still works.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoThis breaks Google Maps.
- b-zee 6y agoGood to see someone that observed the same. I remember checking the source anchors and seeing that indeed the links were untracked. I believe my conclusion was they used JavaScript to catch the anchor click and still send you to the tracker URL.