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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by quesera on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:32PM (#12053116)
If you are not logged in to Google, you get clean links. It's ironic that they treat less engaged users preferably.

The redirect links are fairly easy to trim. The real URL is at the end. So in the worst case, just snip it out.

I'm sure there are browser extensions that will do it for you.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by michaelt on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:14AM (#12054176) 

  The real URL is at the end. So in the worst case,
  just snip it out.
I hope you remember all your character URL-encodings so you can snip out http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.54.3597%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf right.
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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by quesera on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:34AM (#12055007)
It's just hexadecimal ASCII. This is within our capabilities.
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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by nathancahill on Friday July 08, 2016 @11:51AM (#12056356)
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by LukeShu on Friday July 08, 2016 @09:36AM (#12055348)
> If you are not logged in to Google, you get clean links. It's ironic that they treat less engaged users preferably.

No you don't. They start out clean, but when you click or right click on the link, it changes.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by quesera on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:04AM (#12055541)
It had been a long time since I checked. I don't use Google often.

But I just checked again, and you're partially correct. Some but not all links are replaced with the redirect on click or right click. If you browse with JavaScript disabled, some links are prepopulated as redirects, and others are not.

Google is a moving target.

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