[plug] Google web search sanitiser

[Bret Busby]

On 23/10/2012, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/10/2012, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:
>> G'day all,
>>
>> I'm getting increasingly frustrated by the way google wraps its search
>> results in a tracking url. I've found several useful Firefox plugins
>> which fix that on my desktops, but I want to go a step further.
>>
>> Before I go and re-invent the wheel, has anyone seen a plugin or
>> otherwise for squid that will automatically scrub and rewrite tracked
>> urls as they pass the proxy?
>>
>> I started with the idea of the old "upside down ternet" and looked from
>> there, but I've not really found anything other than a lot of people
>> complaining about the problem.
>>
>> Anyone anyone?
>>
>> Brad
>>
>
> Hello.
>
> I have just tried it, using konqueror with javascript disabled.
>
> Using google.com (bookmarked, and therefore going to google.com
> instead of the defaulty google.com.au), searching on the term "monster
> raving loony party", when I do a mouseover of the hypertext link in
> the results, I get all the crap displayed in the bar down the bottom
> of the screen, complete with the tracking and the ridiculously long
> sessionid, but, when  I click on the hypertext link for the search
> result, what opens in the new tab (I click to "Open in new tab"), is
> the site, with only the pure URL (http://www.omrlp.com/) in the URL
> box.
>
> Sop, it appears that the simple answer is to disable javascript in the
> web browser (javascript is malware, anyway, as is all client-side
> processing in web browsing).
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>  you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>  written by Douglas Adams,
>  published by Pan Books, 1992
>
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>


Sorry - that should have been
"So, it appears that the simple answer is to disable javascript ..."

typo!

:~|

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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