Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can

Re:Google to developers: We take down your extension because... by AznHisoka on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:48PM (#17453502)

I find it kind of frustrating that Google does nothing about extensions tracking your browser history, and quickly takes action against extensions like these. I hope Google has their Cambridge moment soon.

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Re:Google to developers: We take down your extension because... by megous on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @07:25PM (#17454351)

A slight irony is that this extension actually removes tracking capability from Google itself in the search. (I suppose only really if you have JS disabled, otherwise they can capture the click event in JS instead of handling links via a special redirect tracker).

To the author: Thanks for the extension. I'm a happy user on FF for a long time.

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Re:Google to developers: We take down your extension because... by brazzledazzle on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @07:24PM (#17454345)

I have no doubt Google ruthlessly takes advantage of tracking data but that’s for them, not for third parties. Anything is possible but I think they’d see giving up data like that to a company like Cambridge to be surrendering a competitive advantage.

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Re:Google to developers: We take down your extension because... by majewsky on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:11PM (#17453652)

> quickly

The "Google search link fix" extension by Wladimir Palant has existed for many years. (Source: I use it in Firefox.)

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Re:Google to developers: We take down your extension because... by palant on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:56AM (#17456705)

For reference, the Chrome version was released in January 2017. So - yes, they had plenty of time to object.

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