On 27 July 2012 18:51, Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt-openbsd-m...@se.rit.edu> wrote: > Eric Oyen wrote: >> I tried the copy link option in the context menu for Safari. It should >> have >> given the direct link but I got that instead. sometimes, being blind can >> be a >> real Pain in the backside. > > That's not your fault, that is Google (and everyone else) substituting their > own redirection links so they can track which results you use. I generally > have to open the page and then copy the URL to avoid that. > > The prevalence of the practice often means that sighted or not, you can't be > sure where a URL really leads much of the time.
Ah! Yes, of course; thank you; that explains it. This usability-hostile tracking/marketing-oriented nonsense is just one of the ways in which Google increasingly is being slightly (or sometimes not so slightly) Evil™ these days. If you use Firefox, you can use the Google/Yandex search link fix add-on to get rid of this complete mullarkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/
