Any chances of getting rid of the redirects in search results? It's so annoying that I can't simply copy the result link URL and paste without getting some crazy Google tracking URL instead. It's such an obvious fail that I can't see how it's possible to not have it fixed yesterday, it made me switch to a different search engine.
I don't think we'll get rid of this any time soon. This is rolled out only for a subset of the users [1], and I guess it provides Google with valuable analytics data.
[1] As I can read in several articles in the internet, but can't find an authoritative source.
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Any chances of getting rid of the redirects in search results? It's so annoying that I can't simply copy the result link URL and paste without getting some crazy Google tracking URL instead. It's such an obvious fail that I can't see how it's possible to not have it fixed yesterday, it made me switch to a different search engine.
There is an interesting discussion about this on stackexchange.com.
"Turning off Google search results indirection": http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/22291/turning-off...
It also breaks the browser history in Safari, which is really frustrating: http://i.imgur.com/pOQmo.png
I don't think we'll get rid of this any time soon. This is rolled out only for a subset of the users [1], and I guess it provides Google with valuable analytics data.
[1] As I can read in several articles in the internet, but can't find an authoritative source.
I've installed a greasemonkey script called "Remove Google Redirection" that seems to work fine...
Noscript has a surrogate that solves this; it works even if scripts are enabled on google search page.