{"id":23993,"date":"2019-01-18T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23993"},"modified":"2019-01-18T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:12:58","slug":"stop-google-search-results-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/stop-google-search-results-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Google Search Results Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/google-search.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/google-search.html\">\n<p>When you click on the link, the <code>onmousedown<\/code> action runs some JavaScript that swaps the original URL with a new tracking URL. Google does this as you click, right under your nose. Or finger.<\/p>\n<p>By default, StopTheMadness has &#x2318;-Click and Drag and Drop protections enabled. A side effect of these protections is that you&rsquo;re also protected from link hijacking. Why? Clicking on a link in a browser is preceded and triggered by <code>mousedown<\/code> and <code>mouseup<\/code> events. Thus, if a web site could hijack these events, it could prevent the link click from working as expected. This is why StopTheMadness prevents <code>mousedown<\/code> and <code>mouseup<\/code> events from getting hijacked when you &#x2318;-click on a link. But what about clicks without the &#x2318; key? StopTheMadness prevents <code>mousedown<\/code> from getting hijacked whenever you click on a link, even without the &#x2318; key, because dragging a link in a browser is preceded and triggered by a <code>mousedown<\/code> event. For full protection against link hijacking, then, you need both &#x2318;-Click and Drag and Drop protections enabled (as they both are by default).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve stopped using Ghostery and other content-blocking\/anti-tracking Safari plug-ins because I&rsquo;m tired of them breaking sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/underpassapp.com\/StopTheMadness\/\">StopTheMadness<\/a> provides less privacy protection, but it fixes the really <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/stop-the-madness\/\">annoying things<\/a> that sites do while causing far fewer <a href=\"https:\/\/underpassapp.com\/StopTheMadness\/support.html#known-issues\">problems<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: When you click on the link, the onmousedown action runs some JavaScript that swaps the original URL with a new tracking URL. Google does this as you click, right under your nose. Or finger. By default, StopTheMadness has &#x2318;-Click and Drag and Drop protections enabled. A side effect of these protections is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-18T19:48:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"ceb9fc3e-64d8-4dee-9dff-56f0102c67fb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-18T20:13:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Azrn8PmTYTe6d_1bwECxn-w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,905,51,30,32,1609,103,343,1775,96],"class_list":["post-23993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-extensions","tag-google","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14","tag-safari","tag-search","tag-stop-the-madness","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23999,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions\/23999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}