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Whenever I do a Google search, if I right click and copy the URL of a result link, it results in a Google redirector URL:
This has many disadvantages for me, the three most important being:
- inability to copy a link without visiting it
- the redirection often takes several seconds, while the actual page would load immediately
- privacy issues
Is there a way to make Google link to actual URLs? Maybe there is a browser plugin which visits resolves all URLs and replaces them?
The same problem applies to Facebook - a typical outgoing link looks like this:
My browser of choice is Opera so an userscript or Opera plugin would be preferred, but I'll be happy to hear about all possibilities.
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I'd like to suggest that you try to use Startpage instead of Google. It uses Google search results (it's pretty much Google search), but the searches are done anonymously, no tracking is done and no logs are kept. It also doesn't put search result links in that 'Google redirector' format.
– galacticninja – 2012-07-05T16:52:31.350