Tell HN: Google Search to begin using opaque redirect URLs on search results

4 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by exploraz

Item id: 49447708

2 Comments

leros

27 minutes ago

They're probably tracking click throughs and what placement you saw, what AB tests were visible, etc.

exploraz

4 hours ago

I encountered that on Firefox (with privacy setting both on strict, and I think also on default protection last time I encountered that) both on Android and desktop, and also Safari (iOS). Not sure about Chrome though.