v1.2 UPDATED TO SUPPORT encrypted.google.com
v1.1 UPDATED TO SUPPORT MORE LOCALIZED VERSIONS OF GOOGLE SEARCH!
This extension circumvents certain techniques used by Google and Facebook to track link clicks. This extension is also a port of the original extension for OS X Safari by Canisbos. View the original extension here:
http://canisbos.com/directlinks
When you click a link in Google search results, Google uses JavaScript to replace the actual link with an indirect one, which they use for click tracking. Google then redirects the browser to the actual destination after logging the click. DirectLinks disables the JavaScript that replaces real links with indirect ones, so that when you click a search result link, Chrome goes straight to the destination.
The extension does something similar for links in Facebook posts: it removes JavaScript that Facebook uses to track clicks on these links.
This extension is also open source! Check it out on Github:
https://github.com/au5ton/DirectLinks
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