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Google does the same thing, which annoys me to no end. I'm not sure when they started, within the past few years. They don't even return a Location header, so t
by nuxi7 12y ago
Google does the same thing, which annoys me to no end. I'm not sure when they started, within the past few years. They don't even return a Location header, so the links don't work with things like wget or curl.
A link to google.com from the google seearch results is really:
hxxp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&ei=LPrOU6a6NYS2yASDzIGADw&usg=AFQjCNG5-9Jej-ukVeakTgwonqt2narbYg&bvm=bv.71667212,d.aWw
- sc00ty 12y agoI've found this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-track-me-google/gdbofhhdmcladcmmfjolgndfkpobecpg/details?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-track-me-goog... quite useful for this issue. It's also a userscript: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121923 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121923
- Istof 12y agoGoogle has been doing this for more then 5 years (probably closer to 10). The real search result link only gets revealed once you right click on the search result (the destination is changed using Javascript's on-click).
- mp4box 12y agoTry "Google/Yandex search link fix" Add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
- teh_klev 12y agoThis is why I started using DuckDuckGo and only hit up google as a very last resort by adding !g to the search term. I'm not usually this militant, but that Google link dark pattern truly pissed me off.
- pandatigox 12y agoUnfortunately, DuckDuckGo follows the same tactic. You can see a (I think) r.duckduckgo.com URL before it loads the desired site
- mcovey 12y agoIt's configurable (you can disable it in settings), and its intention is supposedly to block sending a referrer header.