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Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox

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    Open source metasearch engine

    #Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 40 social mentions

  2. Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator.
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    It doesn't use Ping on Chrome browsers. For example, this is how the a tag looks like on Chromium: <a href=" data-ved="2ahUKEwiIxrz0jKDzAhUWHcAKHQnnArkQFnoECAcQAw" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://news.ycombinator.com/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiIxrz0jKDzAhUWHcAKHQnnArkQFnoECAcQAw"> and this is how it looks like in Firefox: <a href=" data-ved="2ahUKEwj9i67MjKDzAhXUfMAKHWJcCYsQFnoECA0QAw" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','','AOvVaw3F-2xUE22tTvOxNDwVuff-','','2ahUKEwj9i67MjKDzAhXUfMAKHWJcCYsQFnoECA0QAw','','',event)"> You can see that Chromium based browsers call a ping endpoint whereas Firefox browsers use a mousedown event. This device detection uses the user agent; changing it on Firefox to look like Chrome results in a ping attribute instead of mousedown.

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