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Tracking in Google Search

Open ghost opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

Description: After clicking on any search result displayed by Google there seems to be a GET request to Google before it starts loading the webpage.

  • Current behaviour: When clicked on a link such as: https://tr-tr.facebook.com/ it first makes a GET request to https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwjb9Py0xKzjAhWMFMAKHe6iAMYQFjAAegQIBhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftr-tr.facebook.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw1xWwTSqg3_5X67lB-gwH6- which is considered as a tracking request made to Google explained by EFF here

https://prnt.sc/odj78i

Steps to reproduce the problem:

  1. Search for "Facebook" in Google (in Firefox)
  2. Click on the result
  3. Observe the requests being made

ghost avatar Jul 11 '19 09:07 ghost

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/

krystian3w avatar Jul 13 '19 15:07 krystian3w

Great extension, will use it for now but just to keep things minimal, i think this should be in the tracking list if it won’t break the page.

ghost avatar Jul 13 '19 15:07 ghost

I'm using this extension in my mobile phone: https://github.com/kodango/Remove-Google-Redirection/tree/master/extension/greasemonkey

This Is the direct link to add in Setting -> Extension -> New extension:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodango/Remove-Google-Redirection/master/extension/greasemonkey/remove-google-redirection.user.js

Snake87r avatar Aug 30 '19 20:08 Snake87r