Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by account42 » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

yosamino wrote: post #100

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 recently noticed addons.mozilla.org also tracks links using this method. If you scroll down to "Add-on Links" the links to "Homepage" and "Support site" go to https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/8a4c4de845953bc85d10c6465c5c0f11210b5ca1c195b70d7ddfcf8b74592477/https%3A//clearurls.xyz/ and https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/8a4c4de845953bc85d10c6465c5c0f11210b5ca1c195b70d7ddfcf8b74592477/https%3A//wiki.clearurls.xyz…

This is the "privacy friendly" company that adds google analytics to their sites while enrolling users in experiments and collecting telemetry without informed consents. Why are you surprised?

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

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Post by neop1x » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 3:09 PM UTC

It is also possible to use user scripts & Violent Monkey on mobile - Kiwi browser [1], based on Chromium, supports browser extensions as well as full Developer Tools. :)

[1] https://kiwibrowser.com/

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

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Post by rejectfinite » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 4:46 PM UTC

carom wrote: post #23

It is really worth it to switch to DuckDuckGo. You can throw a g! at the end of your search if you don't like the results DDG gave and it will redirect you to Google. That was the feature that gave me the confidence to switch over, it's painless to get different results, even on a mobile keyboard.

Try using !s for Startpage.com results. It is proxied google results.