alt Hacker News> all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs!
Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
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1e1a • today at 6:23 AM
Interesting observation: As soon as you right click on a link, it switches from that to https://www.google.com/url?...
iririririr • today at 7:01 AM
they do that because they added this dark pattern on gmail almost two decades ago and absolutely nobody ever complained.
why wouldn't they expand it?
1) So the backend can track you across fingerprinted links
2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked
You're the product, not the customer.