Every Google result now looks like an ad

Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by jjeaff on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:16PM (#22111669)

I am most frustrated with how almost any url from search or Gmail shows as the url, but actually routes you through a Google url first (so they can track it, of course). That extra hop sometimes takes a second or more.

I don't understand why they don't just track my click with JavaScript. I suspect this new hiding the url thing might have to do with circumventing scripts like I have used before that rewrite the url so that when you click, you go directly to what you clicked on.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by whatshisface on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:38PM (#22111901)

If it's named according to the true URL, those same scripts would work, albiet differently.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by jjeaff on Sunday January 26, 2020 @02:48PM (#22154271)

Currently, the real URL is url encoded into the Google link. But if they stopped displaying the URL and started encrypting the URL or using a DB pointer instead, which is what I am thinking they might be moving toward, then you wouldn't be able to do that.

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