> The old Google linked from the SERP through a proxy link which redirected to the actual result. The new Google links directly from the SERP to the result. I

> The old Google linked from the SERP through a proxy link which redirected to the actual result. The new Google links directly from the SERP to the result. It is my understanding that this is always on, but for a random subset of users. If you go drastically changing your cookies (like the instructions here tell you to) you are very likely to change the state of this flag, too.