Script Summary: Removes Google's hidden Javascript click-track mechanism on search results pages
Please be aware: this script might be ineffective! (see disclaimer)
You might have never noticed it, but the world's most popular search engine does click-tracking on search-results pages: to enhance their results ranking, but also to track a user's online activity.
In the early days, Google was one of the few search engines that simply provided URLs in HREFs on results, no click-tracking or redirects. But they changed this policy and now each URL you click on a results page is first sent to a Google redirect server, counted, and your browser receives a cookie.
Who knows how they internally use these click statistics and the subsequent tracking via the cookie, but in terms of online privacy, it' surely a good idea to circumvent it.
And browsing gets faster, as you save milliseconds otherwise eaten up by a redirect on every results-click.
As the click-track removal might not be successful in very few cases, the script displays a green dot alongside cleaned results.
Disclaimer
Discussing the code here has brought to light that the algorithm this simple script uses might not be effective in stopping the complex tactics Google uses to track clicks and users. Please see this thread and be sure to contribute a post if you can futher help us get certainty.
