Discussion on googlePrivacy | Userscripts.org

Saving Safe Search Preferences, replied by download

download — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:57:07 +0000

Now excludes the preferences page.
That's the best solution I can find right now.

Saving Safe Search Preferences, replied by villadelu

villadelu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:50:02 +0000

Hey thanks for the update to the script. It works really well. One minor issue I have is that when the script is active you can't change your safe surf settings google / preferences page.

Thanks again.

How do we know this works?, replied by Avindra V.G.

Avindra V.G. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:38:54 +0000

.... you can right click the links, copy them in search results and clearly see the tracking code is gone.

edit: I made my own version of this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/60382

How do we know this works?, replied by ploder

ploder — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:25:38 +0000

As title. How can I test this to see if it is working as stated?

Avoiding Conflict with Customize Google , replied by villadelu

villadelu — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:00:51 +0000

Thanks for responding. I turned off customize google and used only googlePrivacy for a while. I did that test several times and everything was cool. I kept the adblock window docked as I searched on google. Eventually two things began appearing in addition to the three blockable elements that are seen while using google with googlePrivacy. First, this appeared "h**p://id.google.com/verify/*.gif". I blocked that. Next a really strange IPv6 connection was created by google. I turned off IPv6 support in firefox very quickly so I don't have the url of the request for you.

Long story short, I turned back on customize google for its other features, and it is coexists fine with googlePrivacy no problem. I haven't seen those nefarious links appear again, and I would probably just chalk it up to the mighty google doing everything in its power to stop you from stopping it.

Again thanks, great script.

Small Problem, replied by download

download — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:31:45 +0000

Fixed.
Will be out in the next revision within a few hours.

Google links, replied by download

download — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:29:49 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll add the google.* URL matcher to the next revision; which should be out soon given how
much user feedback I've gotten.

Avoiding Conflict with Customize Google , replied by download

download — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:27:22 +0000

That would mean that either googlePrivacy hasn't loaded properly or that
Customize Google has reset the google variable for it's own use.
I don't know how Customize Google works so I don't know which is the case.
For starters, make sure that when you right-click on the GM icon on a google search
page that you can see the googlePrivacy script loaded.
If it's not then there is something wrong with the URL matching strings.
Otherwise, it is a conflict and I'll have to take a look at the Customize Google source
to sort it out.

Google links, replied by Chooken

Chooken — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:18:37 +0000

Aah, I figured out what it was. I use http://www.google.com.au/ and the included pages are http://www.google.com/ .etc

I got round it just by adding http://www.google.com.au/ to the list, but you could get around all countries by using http://www.google.* I guess.

Edit:

Thanks for the great script btw ;)

Avoiding Conflict with Customize Google , replied by villadelu

villadelu — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:42:23 +0000

I have been using customize google for a while, and its great. I just added your script and I am an instant fan. Are you aware of any conflicts, because I have customize google set to do as many privacy features as I can including anonymizing the google UID cooking and blocking any analytics cookies. Do you know of any conflicts between these two?

Also, when I do the )javascript:alert(google) it brings a popup saying "[object Object]", I am not sure if that means there is a problem.

Small Problem, replied by chipall

chipall — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:55:31 +0000

Hi,

When clicking on the "more" link at the top the Google page it no longer drops down the fancy menu when this script is loaded. Can you please look into this?

Web Images Video Maps News Shopping Gmail more ▼

Google links, replied by download

download — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:09:33 +0000

It shouldn't, that was the first thing that this was supposed to get rid of.
It just kills the Google JavaScript objects so that they can't be used to change the
HREFs for the links.
Can you reproduce it?
Try typing javascript:alert(google) into the URL bar while at the google search page.
If it shows anything other than "null" or a blank alert box then something is wrong.
Also, right click on Greasemonkey while at the search page and see if googlePrivacy is actually
running.

Google links, replied by Chooken

Chooken — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:42:43 +0000

After a search in Google, the results listed seem to link directly to the site (eg: http://userscripts.org)

But after you click it, it still loads through this link:
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&ct...

Search box autofocus, replied by download

download — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:45:46 +0000

Will Do.
Update: Done.

Search box autofocus, replied by octel

octel — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:31:57 +0000

It seems that this script breaks the onload focus functionality of the search box on the main google page. It's annoying to click the textbox every time I load up Google.
Any way to fix this?