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Ha, the Hacker News page won't even display the URL, it's so ugly. Let's examine it in its full glory https://www.google.com/url https://www.google.com/url? s
by NelsonMinar 14y ago
Ha, the Hacker News page won't even display the URL, it's so ugly. Let's examine it in its full glory
https://www.google.com/url https://www.google.com/url?
sa=t&
rct=j&
q=&
esrc=s&
source=web&
cd=1&
cad=rja&
ved=0CDMQFjAA&
url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&
ei=k99eUcfzOsePiAKjgIG4DA&
usg=AFQjCNGxnV8qCnv_rujodDj6o2ZhqU8Nxg&
bvm=bv.44770516,d.cGE
Note that none of this is necessary for clickthrough tracking; it's easy to do that separately from the href.