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Yahoo Link Tracking Removal NEW

Remove Yahoo Link Tracking (ylt, ylu) strings from yahoo links

Remove Yahoo Link Tracking.

Get's rid of the ylt and ylu strings that Yahoo has recently started addiing to their links:

Examples:
**without script:**
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7112/career...

**with script:**
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7112/career

**without script:**
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=28CharacterAlphaNu...

**with script:**
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/http%3a//www.stats.com/

Updated Nov/2/2006 with variable length ylt and ylu string support.

Re-written December 2, 2006





Aug 2, 2006
mr 2 Scriptwright

I found some URLs on Yahoo! News that seem to use a slightly shorter ylt string and also include a ylu string. I modified this script to handle them; see http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4975 .

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