#13 "Remove click tracking" not working (News/All)

[Phoglenix]

"Remove click tracking" for Google news does not appear to work - I think that removing click tracking may not be working at all.

-additional info lost :(

[Phoglenix]

"BTW, here’s how I fixed click tracking. I mentioned this works with Greasemonkey scripts. Ciao.

var arLinks = document.getElementsByTagName(”a”);
for (var i = 0; i < arLinks.length; i++ ) {
var elmLink = arLinks[i];
if ( elmLink.getAttribute("class") == "l" ) {
elmLink.removeAttribute('onmousedown');
}
}"

[Phoglenix]

"Consider this search:

irreducible elements of quadratic integers filetype:pdf

The click tracking is correctly removed for second and subsequent links. But, for the first and the most relevant link, the click tracking persists. (So that, when I open that link in a new tab, I get a lot of google junk in my url bar, which never gets resolved - since firefox directly opens the pdf, and I never get to see the author's url.)"

-- I couldn't replicate this behaviour. On google.com it linked directly to the pdf. Suggests it's intermittent ie hard to track down :(