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Platform: Firefox on Linux
Related to: #43

When opening google oauth popups, this extension causes an error to be thrown. You can replicate this easily using api explorer. I've verified this is a don't track me google bug by having it as the only enabled plugin in private mode.

Steps to reproduce:

1. go to https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/files/list
2. click execute
3. get "Error authorizing: popup_blocked_by_browser"

Note that this applies to and only to oauth popups. The google oauth playground uses redirects, so it doesn't have the same issue.

When "Don't track me" enabled, image in Googe Image Search page open in new tab instead of expanding them. Can you fix it?

It still queries Google on docs.google.com/spreadsheet when adding the suffix htmlview.
the spread I use of mine.

When enabled, dont-track-me-google breaks the "sort-by" feature of on amazon.com. Problem disappears when extension is disabled.

To repo: go to amazon.com and search for a product. On the sort-by combo box (drop down) change from featured to anything else. The page is refreshed but stays on featured.

Hello, first of all nice project, I've always liked it.
I'm asking if it was possible to add an option to stop Google from tracking search queries (try it yourself, open Network tab under Console with F12 on Google and start typing something, you'll see a bunch requests containing your query are sent to Google.)
I'm able to block all them using a URL blocker add-on by using regex and applying this regex I've made in a very short time:

http(s?)://(www?).google.(com|ad|ae|com.af|com.ag|com.ai|al|am|co.ao|com.ar|as|at|com.au|az|ba|com.bd|be|bf|bg|com.bh|bi|bj|com.bn|com.bo|com.br|bs|bt|co.bw|by|com.bz|ca|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|co.ck|cl|cm|cn|com.co|co.cr|com.cu|cv|com.cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|com.do|dz|com.ec|ee|com.eg|es|com.et|fi|com.fj|fm|fr|ga|ge|gg|com.gh|com.gi|gl|gm|gp|gr|com.gt|gy|com.hk|hn|hr|ht|hu|co.id|ie|co.il|im|co.in|iq|is|it|je|com.jm|jo|co.jp|co.ke|com.kh|ki|kg|co.kr|com.kw|kz|la|com.lb|li|lk|co.ls|lt|lu|lv|com.ly|co.ma|md|me|mg|mk|ml|com.mm|mn|ms|com.mt|mu|mv|mw|com.mx|com.my|co.mz|com.na|com.nf|com.ng|com.ni|ne|nl|no|com.np|nr|nu|co.nz|com.om|com.pa|com.pe|com.pg|com.ph|com.pk|pl|pn|com.pr|ps|pt|com.py|com.qa|ro|ru|rw|com.sa|com.sb|sc|se|com.sg|sh|si|sk|com.sl|sn|so|sm|sr|st|com.sv|td|tg|co.th|com.tj|tk|tl|tm|tn|to|com.tr|tt|com.tw|co.tz|com.ua|co.ug|co.uk|com.uy|co.uz|com.vc|co.ve|vg|co.vi|com.vn|vu|ws|rs|co.za|co.zm|co.zw|cat)/complete/search?.*

yeah, I've not tested it that much. Note that it has to be an additional option, since this stops search hints from getting viewed too.

On Android there is a document request sent by Google after clicking a link under 'Videos' (by the way I'm opening the videos in the browser not in the Youtube app). I tried redirecting the link but that didn't work.

The document request URL is:

https://www.google.com/searchurl/rr.html#app=com.google.android.youtube&pingbase=https://www.google.com/&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=example

I'm guessing it's also used to track clicks for things other than Youtube. Can this document request be stopped so the only request made is to the URL in the url parameter?

STR:

1. Open a point of interest on Google Maps, e.g. Kasteel Heeswijk
2. Click on the website (e.g. kasteelheeswijk.nl).
3. Notice that a google.com/url?... link is opened.

The link detection/rewriting logic is not triggered because Google Maps uses a button instead of an <a>. Upon clicking the button, window.open is being called, with the following parameters:

window.open(
  "/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kasteelheeswijk.nl%2F&sa=t&rct=j&source=maps&usg=...&ved=...",
  "_blank",
  "",
  undefined
);

This could be addressed by intercepting and rewriting window.open calls. But ideally, Google should not use <button> elements, but plain <a>. The use of buttons instead of links prevents users from right-clicking and opening the URL in a new window, for example. That's not a good user experience...

Google Calendar made an update to it's UI available recently:

• https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/7541906
• https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/10/new-calendar-user-interface17.html

After updating, if I click on a link in the location or description fields of the calendar appointment I am sent to a 'Redirect Notice' page with a URL like this: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.gotomeeting.com%2Fjoin%2F123456789

If I copy the URL of a link in the description, I get this URL: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.gotomeeting.com%2Fjoin%2F123456789&sa=D&ust=1510607942331000&usg=AFQjCNHUB0OustcCNGK3ts5l_ybA6_tM-w

I use dark themes on almost all of the sites i use including google, and when i click on a link when this script is active the burst of sudden white burns my eyes... I know this is nitpicking but how should i edit the script for the screen to be black instead of white? I've been messing with the code for some time now, but i am just not good enough for the task... I am using the greasemonkey version.

I get this when I load the extension:

It does not affect the functionality of the extension, though.
Just to let you know.

I typed in a search of site:arnold.c64.org boulder dash and, since arnold is an FTP site, the results were all ftp: URLs. The extension failed to convert the links into regular, non-Google links. I wonder if this is true of all FTP sites with this extension.

Web pages that have embedded Google search still have the Google prefix in the href when using the extension. For example, in https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=machine+translation you can inspect the href in the titles and the prefix is still there.

It looks like links in the GCal are not being modified to strip the google tracking.

Here is a screenshot showing the hover over the location:

And hovering over a body link:

1. Search on images.google.com, or on google.com and switch to images.
2. Left click on an image to open the sidebar.
3. (Right or left) click on the selected image or the title. (link unsanitised)
4. (Right or left) click on the selected image or the title again. (link sanitised)
5. Repeat from step 2 indefinitely.

Using version 4.23.1 on Firefox 85.0.2.

At some point (I only noticed today) this extension stopped working for Google news which is a great shame as I have used it since it was a userscript!

Tested version 4.2.1 on Vivaldi 1.16 and Chrome 67
ps. thank you for your work on it!

news.google.com uses a different form of encoding.

Example: https://news.google.com/articles/CBMihQFodHRwczovL3d3dy50LW9ubGluZS5kZS9uYWNocmljaHRlbi91a3JhaW5lL2lkXzEwMDMxMDYxNi91a3JhaW5lLWtyaWVnLXJ1c3NsYW5kLXdlbGNoZXMtemllbC12ZXJmb2xndC1wdXRpbi1taXQtZGVtLWx1ZnRhbmdyaWZmLS5odG1s0gEA?hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE%3Ade

Base64 part: CBMihQFodHRwczovL3d3dy50LW9ubGluZS5kZS9uYWNocmljaHRlbi91a3JhaW5lL2lkXzEwMDMxMDYxNi91a3JhaW5lLWtyaWVnLXJ1c3NsYW5kLXdlbGNoZXMtemllbC12ZXJmb2xndC1wdXRpbi1taXQtZGVtLWx1ZnRhbmdyaWZmLS5odG1s0gEA

Expected URL: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ukraine/id_100310616/ukraine-krieg-russland-welches-ziel-verfolgt-putin-mit-dem-luftangriff-.html

What did you do? (steps to reproduce)

1. Installed Don't Track Me Google extension.
2. Opened https://maps.google.com.
3. Typed "McDonald's near 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois."

What happened? (actual results)

1. The map zoomed out, but showed McDonald's locations near my home address (the default location where Google Maps opens).

What should have happened? (expected results)

1. The map should've shown McDonald's locations near 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

Disabling the extension made the expected results happen.

Unless I'm missing something this project doesn't have a license. Any chance we could fix that? I'm willing to submit a PR, just let me know which license you'd like to use. Preferably BSD/MIT. :)

Hi Rob @Rob--W. I don't really know when it started happening but i see these errors in console and i'm not sure if the userscript is working as intended. I'm using the latest version of it as of 07-02-2023. Posting here screenshot from console.Anything else i can do on my end,just let me know. Thank you 👍

P.S. Just to note here. I do mask my User Agent(using Firefox UA,otherwise i'm on Chromium). Hopefully this is not what causing the errors.

Just in case,ping @ameshkov from the AdguardTeam as i'm not sure which is the problem here,the userscript or some settings in AG.
disableGoogleTracking.js.txt

I am using this plugin on Firefox TamperMonkey. Recently Google seems to have changed their redirecting strategy. Thus links exposed with this plugin won't work properly if just clicked on in search results. They will become links to the url www.google.com/null. But if you open them in new tab, they will be opened normally.

https://www.google.ac/ is also a domain of Google that's used for Search.

It is not listed at https://www.google.com/supported_domains
I found it at the old Wiki page that listed Google domains: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_Google_domains.html
The wiki page listed 198 domains, whereas my source (supported_domains) lists only 193. The difference is:

• https://www.google.ac
• https://www.google.cc (redirect to .com TLD)
• https://www.google.com.lc (domain not resolved)
• https://www.google.gf (redirect to .com TLD)
• https://www.google.io (404)

Neither of the above lists contain the following (which is part of my list)

• https://www.google.ng

For some reason Google searches still track you every time you have a mouse up event, it tries to access https://www.google.*/gen_204

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox developer tools, Network tab
2. Search for something
3. Right-click on a search result to open a context menu/Ctrl-click (for Open in new tab)

Expected result:
No new web request.

Actual result:
Google is hungry for data.

The addon is not working I still get these modified urls and you are letting the ping function track us? Who do you work for really?

The fix for #2 is preventing Gmail from displaying attachments inline. The attachment is opened in a new tab instead.

I installed your extension with Download Chrome Extension and it works as expected with apparently no issues.

You can submit it to the Opera store for users to enjoy automatic updates.

In google.com

Google uses different techniques in different browsers to make this type of tracking possible.

In Chrome,
the new HTML “ping” attribute

ref:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/privacy-badger-now-fights-more-sneaky-google-tracking

and almost every adblock-like app does not block this...

I add this on my filter:

||google.*/url?sa$~xmlhttprequest

Thanks for the great plugin!

Would you be interested in also supporting other popular web services that mangle URLs?

Facebook and messenger.com are a prime example. Sometimes clicking on a link on messenger.com even leads you to a "You are leaving Facebook, please confirm" page.

Example link:

https://www.budgetbytes.com/2017/01/bibimbap-ultimate-bowl-meal/

https://l.messenger.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.budgetbytes.com%2F2017%2F01%2Fbibimbap-ultimate-bowl-meal%2F&h=ATMDKczxocYay-ZLWOaA8UH4dOwRP03eLDAi7fkCNFAP4cFCUFfrxe9uKmyrw7KEl2IfZU8pYb17oGSg-9eKgpOcmbd891DlqUAyqQFOAl3wMr55W8acC65kUKbegRHONCf2cGDT2E60Ow

Hi.

I'm using this extension since a few weeks now and it's really good, I wonder why I didn't install it sooner. Thanks for publishing and maintaining it!

However, I observed degraded performances on https://console.cloud.google.com with Firefox displaying a warning "this extension is slowing down your browser".

See the difference when the extension is disabled:

Compared to when it's enabled:

It seems that this doesn't happen systematically, but it's still quite common.

Do you think it's possible to add an option to disable the extension on some sites, based on a regex for example?

I'm using Firefox v114.0 with v4.27 of the "Don't track me Google" add-on.

From the Chrome Web Store feedback page (21 april 2017):

There's a new version of Google Earth for Chrome. Unfortunately, DTMG causes it not to work properly. Please try this with the extension enabled:

1. Go to https://earth.google.com/web/
2. If a welcome message appears, dismiss it by clicking "SKIP" or the "X" near the top-right corner.
3. Click the ship's wheel icon on the left. It's labeled "Voyager".
4. Click "Travel", scroll down a little, and then click "Explore Paris".
5. There are several entries on this page ("72 Hours in Paris: Day 1", etc.). Clicking on them should open the content right in the browser. However, when DTMG is enabled, it causes Chrome to immediately download a KMZ file instead.

Simply put, the new Google Earth is broken until you disable DTMG.

I followed the above steps, the HTML is as follows:

<a href="#gcs_itin_9;balloonFlyto" title="A second day in Paris, from the Louvre and Centre Pompidou to the Right Bank's Marais neighborhood" target="_blank">
                <span>72 Hours in Paris: Day 2</span>
              </a>

Hi Rob. Gmail is still hijacking links in emails I receive. Here's an example:

<a href="http://www.forgefix.co.uk/Products/lightning-bolts" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http://www.forgefix.co.uk/Products/lightning-bolts&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1469172403783000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-MlbDsXYqI6FIoI6ntAxamRi7lg"><wbr>Products/lightning-bolts</a>

When I click the link for forgefix.co.uk, sleazy Gmail swaps it for the google.com URL

I'm using "Don't track me Google 4.4"

Google Music has recently updated its home page. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with this extension enabled. When trying to open https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/home, in the console I see these two requests failing, which results in an empty page with music controls and menu bar, but no content:

POST https://music-pa.clients6.google.com/v1/ij/gethome?key=AIzaSyCKH8gd6LPS-GLsYmQlyFlpRrrMDK85G9g&%24ct=application%2Fx-protobuf 403 
POST https://music-pa.clients6.google.com/v1/ij/getmessages?key=AIzaSyCKH8gd6LPS-GLsYmQlyFlpRrrMDK85G9g&%24ct=application%2Fx-protobuf 403 ()

The Network instrument reports the following error:

���;Requests from referer https://play.google.com/ are blocked.���
#type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help�q
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 Google developer console API key�Khttps://console.developers.google.com/project/798898495528/apiui/credential

Once the extension is disabled, everything works fine. I'm using version 4.13.

Could you look into this issue please?

I'm using this extension with success and no complications (also together with uMatrix which disables some JavaScript).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-google-tracking/ is not compatible with Firefox 57+ and it would be nice if its users found your extension by clicking the corresponding "find a replacement" link.

According to the notice on top of https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/10/26/helping-find-compatible-extensions/ , you need to ask the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) admins/moderators at https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/favorite-webextensions/17087

Thanks!

Would it be possible to integrate the functionality of your plugin to work within uBlock Origin?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-3rd-party-filters
https://filterlists.com

I recently noticed that the chat in Gmail also seems to have tracking links if you paste a URL as a link.

The HTML seems to look like:
<a rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://example.org/" class="Xx" tabindex="-1" dir="ltr" data-display="https://example.org/" data-sanitized="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://example.org/&amp;sa=D&amp;source=hangouts&amp;ust=00000&amp;usg=LhLuZg" referrerpolicy="origin">https://example.org/</a>

If this isn't out of scope for this plug-in, it'd be great if removing these could be supported.

The addon does not work, when JavaScript is disabled for google.com website.

Can this be fixed?

When I try to invoke a pop-up in GMail ("Show Original", "Print", or the pop-out), the popup loads with a blank page and I get this message in gmail: "Grrr! A popup blocker may be preventing the application from opening the page. If you have a popup blocker, try disabling it to open the window."

A URL in the chat of Google Meet looks like this:

https://meet.google.com/linkredirect?authuser=0&dest=https%3A%2F%2F....etc.

The link should be sanitized.

I've managed to run the extension source code through Xcode's safari-web-extension-converter tool, and I was able to compile and use an extension that works on Safari 14. It just works, and it's really useful!

Would you be interested in publishing it to the Apple App Store or distributing a notarized and signed version independently?

Here's some more info on the converter process: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/converting_a_web_extension_for_safari

Hello,

Is there any chance for this extension to support Microsoft Edge ?

DTMG does a great job of reversing the transformation by Google of original URLs into URLs that take me on a detour that enables tracking!

However, I understand that Google also records what I search for, and I don't see anything about blocking that on the description of this extension.

Could you add that, or notify me if you know of an extension that already does it?

Thanks!

FB works the same as Google Search. Don't you think that it would be nice to create something similar for it?

When clicking a link in the description of any YouTube video, it first redirects you to youtube.com/redirect and from there to your desired location.
As Google and YouTube belong together it's kind of useless preventing being tracked by google.com but when clicking a link through YouTube they still track you.
It would be nice if this addon could also prevent YouTube from modifying links.

The ad result links on Google Search don't appear to be caught by this extension. The ads use a slightly different function google.arwt() as opposed to the rwt() function the regular results use.

The original user-script version of Don't track me Google worked great with all Mozilla browsers, as it could be run through Scriptish or Greasemonkey. However, the current add-on version works only with Firefox. It would be great if you could release a version that works with SeaMonkey.

When you search for a brand on Google you have a box on the right side where you can enter reviews. There's a button "write a review" which doesn't do anything at all when clicked when this addon is enabled in Firefox.

When you use Site Search on a website such as TvTropes, the page domain isn't Google, so the extension does not run, and all of Google's tracking (links swapped with tracking versions when you click on them) remains intact.

I don't know of any good way to fix this without forcing the extension to run on all domains.

This is how regular Google Docs link look like (In table of contents for example)

<div class="docs-bubble docs-linkbubble-bubble" role="dialog" aria-label="Change or remove link." tabindex="0" style="direction: ltr; left: 244px; top: 1565px;">
    <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="#heading=h.pnvgauhbu6d6">#heading=h.pnvgauhbu6d6</a>
    <span> – 
        <span class="docs-bubble-link" role="button" tabindex="0">Change</span> | 
        <span class="docs-bubble-link" role="button" tabindex="0">Remove</span>
    </span>
</div>

Looks like there's a script somewhere there that intercepts the click and scrolls to the header instead opening it in new tab.

Well, it doesn't work if Don't track me Google is enabled -- it opens new tab for it.

I'm using Don't track me Google 4.9

ps: thanks, this extension is great

Hi Rob @Rob--W. Any chance to provide here ready user script with ability to be fetched and updated,something like:
// @version .....
// @license .......
// @downloadURL ......
// @updateURL .....
I'm just trying to offset whatever is not necessary from my Chromium browser to my AdBlocker,which is perfectly capable to run it.
I've been testing it for a while now and didn't see any reason to mess with it,so can be easily moved there.
I'd very much appreciate considering it. Thank you and keep up the good work 👍