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# Avoid Google Search redirects | ||
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## Introduction | ||
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This add-on avoids Google Search to track you with redirect links. | ||
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When a user hovers a Google Search result, target link seems to be the right one, but, when he clicks on this link, the target is rewritten with a redirection link to a Google tracker. | ||
This tracker is then able to save your click in the Google Search engine data. | ||
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To achieve this, Google Search uses an onmousedown event on results. This event is able to rewrite the target link by using a function called « rwt ». | ||
This add-on simply redefines this rwt function with an empty function, so nothing happens on click and user goes directly to its result. | ||
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The original idea comes from the « Remove Google Redirect in Google Search Results » add-on. | ||
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This add-on is packaged as WebExtension and so is compatible with recent Firefox releases and technologies. | ||
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## Report issue, improvements | ||
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Source code can be found on Github: https://github.com/Trim/avoid-google-search-redirects | ||
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You can use this repository to open issues and feature requests. |