Jeez Google pt. 2 - We still want clean URLs

November 5, 2009 2:11 PM

Remove these crappy ultra-long links from my Google Search Results when I right-click!

What's the best way to get rid of these ultra-long Google urls that pop-up when you right-click a link in Google search results? It's basically a rehash of this AskMe from 2008.

I don't use greasemonkey. I had customizegoogle installed but that was abandoned and no longer works - does optimizegoogle do this? I just want to get my right-click links back. I tried removing web history, logging in or out doesn't matter, and deleting cookies, etc - nothing seems to stop it, and I hate it.

Lil help?!

posted by cashman to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Somewhere recently I picked up a "remove redirects" bookmarklet - I think this is the one - that does the job. Not automatic though. I suspect you'd need a Greasemonkey script for an automatic solution.
posted by Pinback at 2:42 PM on November 5, 2009

Best answer: Google Tracking-B-Gone.
posted by IndigoRain at 8:38 PM on November 5, 2009 [1 favorite]

Disable Java from google.com.
posted by clorox at 12:44 AM on November 6, 2009

Maybe that should read block Java from google.com. Either way, that's the culprit.
posted by clorox at 12:44 AM on November 6, 2009

Response by poster: I just broke down and went the greasemonkey way.
posted by cashman at 5:58 AM on November 6, 2009