Nasty serach services! I want to copy the real links!

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mr Handy

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Posted: 20th Aug 2013 21:57

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Hi everypony!
You maybe familiar with this problem - search services, like google, shows on search page the real links until you click on them, then it replaces the real link with redirect crap. This drives me crazy! I have google chrome, maybe there is some plugin? I can't find any.

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Aaron Miller

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Posted: 20th Aug 2013 22:37 Edited at: 20th Aug 2013 22:41

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I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14176138/802617

Apparently you can also search Google like this: http://www.google.com/custom It gives you direct links, not "sticky URLs."

Edit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-track-me-google/gdbofhhdmcladcmmfjolgndfkpobecpg

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mr Handy

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Posted: 20th Aug 2013 23:48 Edited at: 21st Aug 2013 00:01

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@Aaron Miller
Thanks, I think a userscript may work.

Update: Here is what I have found so far:

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// ==UserScript==
// @name	onmousedown remover
// @include	*yandex.*
// @include	*google.*
// @include	http://www.tineye.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
(function(){

	if (location.hostname.indexOf('google.')!=-1) {
		if (opera.version() <= 10.10) function rwt(){};
		opera.defineMagicFunction('rwt',function(){});
	}

	document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
	//window.opera.addEventListener('AfterScript', function(){
		for (var lnk in document.links) { document.links[lnk].onmousedown=''; }
	}, false);

})();

I have installed tapemonkey and now testing... ... ...

Update: works with yandex, but not with google. I think that is because of chrome I have, not opera...

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mr Handy

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Posted: 21st Aug 2013 13:04

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Bump: It would be nice if someone here knows this stuff and will help us to understand how it works, because such indirect links are on many sites like facebook and others.

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mr Handy

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Posted: 21st Aug 2013 16:39

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This is works, but I don't know how. Anyone?

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           clean links
// @include        *google*
// @version        1.0
// ==/UserScript==
(function(){
	function process_links(links) {
		for( var i=0; i<links.length; ++i ){
			links[i].removeAttribute("onmousedown");
		}
	};

// for static search-pages
	process_links(document.links);

// when Google instant is active
	document.addEventListener('DOMNodeInserted', function(e){
		process_links(e.target.getElementsByTagName('a'));
		return true;
	}, false);
})();

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Phaelax

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Posted: 21st Aug 2013 18:47

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Quote: "Normally each link on a Google search page has an onmousedown script that sends a request to their servers telling them what you clicked on. It's an invasion of privacy and it slows down your connection. This kills off the bounce script."

From what I can tell, that script removes the onmousedown attribute. Looking through the source code on a search page, I see this:

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onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNFHwcUnutkysqwR5Sfa9TF0ZK6DJA','eFPN4LjVYFEFYRjVe17-cA','0CC0QFjAA','','',event)"

But a real link is still present in the href attribute. By removing the mouse event, you get the direct link instead of it being hijacked by google.

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mr Handy

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Posted: 21st Aug 2013 20:49

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So is that last code is correct? Compiler shows some errors.

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Phaelax

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Posted: 21st Aug 2013 22:00

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If you view google's page source, it looks like a complete mess to me.

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mr Handy

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Posted: 21st Aug 2013 23:41

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Well, at least with this script running I have real URLs in history. Earlier there were those nasty track links, so bowser history was unreadable for me.

But I think this script could be improved to be compatible with any site that using this track trick.