Google Tracking-B-Gone

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Strips click tracking from Google's AJAX-y new search results (new as of April 2009)
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Google's new AJAX-powered search results page wraps a gateway (i.e. tracking) URL around the links to individual results. An annoying side effect of this change is that you can't copy and paste links directly out of search results. This userscript fixes that problem.

For reference:
- http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/04/google...
- http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2009/01/30...
- http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/04/upcoming-...

This userscript has been lightly tested and "works for me." However, bug reports are welcome.

Changelog:

  • 2009.10.09 - version 1.3 - Fixed broken shopping result links, added support for secondary links (Thanks to uncajesse for the bug report)
  • 2009.05.06 - version 1.2 - Added support for cached, featured, and sitelink links. (Thanks, Prez, for the heads-up.)
  • 2009.04.26 - version 1.1 - Damn it, Google, make up your mind!
  • 2009.04.22 - version 1.0 - Initial release

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