{"id":120,"date":"2012-03-10T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T05:41:19","slug":"googles-click-tracking-and-how-to-disable-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/googles-click-tracking-and-how-to-disable-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Click Tracking and How to Disable It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Google tracks every search result you click on. They do this surreptitiously: URLs in Google search results <em>appear<\/em> to go directly to the destination:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121 alignnone\" title=\"Apparent URL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/google_apparent_url.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/google_apparent_url.png 641w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/google_apparent_url-300x40.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, upon click, URLs in Google search results change to go to Google first!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122\" title=\"Effective URL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/google_actual_url.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/google_actual_url.png 643w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/google_actual_url-300x40.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Straight Google\" href=\"https:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/121261\">Straight Google<\/a> removes this tracking from Google URLs across all Google products. Easy to install and no configuration needed, but you must install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greasespot.net\/\">Greasemonkey<\/a> first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Google tracks every search result you click on. They do this surreptitiously: URLs in Google search results appear to go directly to the destination: &nbsp; But, upon click, URLs in Google search results change to go to Google first! &nbsp; Straight Google removes this tracking from Google URLs across all Google products. Easy <a href='https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/googles-click-tracking-and-how-to-disable-it\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[40,42,41,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}