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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by danShumway on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:23PM (#21428500)
On Google for me, the link is missing. Google also does this fun thing where when you click on the link it invisibly changes in the background to a Google-wrapped URL.[0] If you right-click on the link and select "copy link location", you won't get the result you want, you'll get gibberish.

So it proves that you can use DuckDuckGo to immediately get the link with no fuss, and that Google Search is increasingly not designed to facilitate that kind of interaction.

[0]: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by matt4077 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:42PM (#21428616)
Google rewrites URLs to track clicks and improve search, which is mildly annoying but not quite nefarious.

The links obviously works, but if you want it to look nicer, why not just click and get the URL from the browser? That might even be faster depending on device and keyboard/touchscreen/mouse setup and usage.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by jasomill on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:48PM (#21429638)
Sometimes the target site has been rearranged, the link immediately redirects to an unhelpful generic page, and the Googlefuscated link doesn't work in the Wayback Machine.

This is easy enough [for me] to work around with browser developer tools on the desktop, but a PITA on, e.g., iOS, where these are not readily available.

Google could solve the problem without sacrificing telemetry by overriding the context menu for the link with an option to "show original link".

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by NicoJuicy on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:26PM (#21429497)
It is very annoying for pdf documents, where it is downloaded immediatly in your browser though.

I just want the link :)

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