Google Tracking-B-Gone

By tbolt — Last update Dec 10, 2009 — Installed 7,949 times. Daily Installs: 9, 10, 5, 15, 9, 12, 9, 12, 16, 12, 15, 13, 11, 15, 12, 17, 15, 5, 11, 16, 12, 20, 10, 16, 15, 17, 3, 10, 11, 19, 8

Support for News?

Subscribe to Support for News? 13 posts, 4 voices

Apr 23, 2009 3:34am
[disabled] User

Works great, but Google News also has tracking links added via onmousedown on News Search results ... can this be expanded to fix those as well? :)
 
Apr 23, 2009 5:04am
tbolt Script's Author

P'raps so! I'll give it a look.
 
Apr 25, 2009 4:52am
[disabled] User

Well, now it's not working for me on the main Google searches again. :( The links are changing as soon as I click them again.
 
Apr 25, 2009 6:57am
tbolt Script's Author

Can you paste in the URL from the search results page that isn't working?
 
Apr 28, 2009 4:43pm
[disabled] User

Grr, it's working now ... maybe something else I have was conflicting with it.
 
Apr 28, 2009 6:34pm
tbolt Script's Author

I blame Google: this weekend they made more changes to how they're displaying search results. I have a feeling that maintaining this script's going to be like playing whack-a-mole until they make up their minds.

If you have issues again, copy the URL and paste it in here. It'll help me track things down.
 
May 1, 2009 4:34pm
[disabled] User

Thanks, tblolt. :) Google's tracking is getting out of control.
 
May 6, 2009 3:17am
Prez Scriptwright

Thanks!!! Awesome script! I found an area it misses though. Using this search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=firefox+cr...

The Top 2 results are auto-crapified before even right clicking the links.

Found 2 more cases:
• Cached links get tainted after right click.
• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dpd&btnG=G...
The top 2 results subdirectory links are tainted as well.
 
May 6, 2009 3:28am
tbolt Script's Author

And so they are!

Thanks for the link and the heads-up. I'll take a look and see about an update.
 
May 6, 2009 11:43pm
tbolt Script's Author

I've updated the script to version 1.2, with support for cached, featured, and sitelink links.

Stripping the tracking out of Google News is turning out to be non-trivial. I may end up writing a separate script if there's enough demand, and to keep this script as lean as possible.
 
May 8, 2009 10:41pm
Prez Scriptwright

Thanks tbolt! Works great. Also I think I jumped the gun when I said google cached links get tainted, I can't reproduce that anymore with the script off. Maybe Google fixed it on their side.
 
Mar 1, 2010 9:58am
Technitrox Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

google news uk version sometimes gets tracking

here is a sample url - http://news.google.co.uk/news/url?sa=t&ct2=uk%2...
 
Mar 1, 2010 5:36pm
tbolt Script's Author
FirefoxX11

Google News is not supported by this script at this time.

I'll take a look and see if it can be added without too much grief or overhead.
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