Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox

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Post by calmingsolitude » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
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#2

Post by senkora » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

Could this also solve the problem on Facebook Messenger? It does similar mangling.

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#3

Post by HelloMcFly » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

I have noticed this, but I have never understood what is happening. Still don't, but nice to see a fix.

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Post by anoncow » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

senkora wrote: post #2

Could this also solve the problem on Facebook Messenger? It does similar mangling.

That would be awesome. It currently filters everything which blocks websites sometimes for no good reason! (My websites are blocked and FB pays no heed to my requests to unblock them).

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#5

Post by BunsanSpace » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

There's already an add-on which does this, and more. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clearurls/

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Post by armada651 » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

BunsanSpace wrote: post #5

There's already an add-on which does this, and more. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clearurls/

I actually prefer short userscripts like this over addons, because I can immediately see it's not doing anything nefarious and I only need to trust the addon that I install the user script with.

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Post by Lammy » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

I used to use “Google/Yandex Search Link Fix” but it died along with XUL https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix

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Post by ainar-g » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

HelloMcFly wrote: post #3

I have noticed this, but I have never understood what is happening. Still don't, but nice to see a fix.

Tracking is happening. It's the goog after all. As for Chromium-based ones, perhaps the goog thinks that it already knows enough about them?

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#9

Post by fastssd » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

Thank you for this. I thought something was wrong when I tried to hover over links, or I was going crazy. This explains a lot.

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#10

Post by cyberpsybin » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

Google is cancer to the web that has metastasized and become malignant.