From 128032c8708058a12e8b43aa14cc35a057c997ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrien Dorsaz Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 13:29:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Move long description to the README file at the moment --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52f170e --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Avoid Google Search redirects + +## Introduction + +This add-on avoids Google Search to track you with redirect links. + +When a user hovers a Google Search result, target link seems to be the right one, but, when he clicks on this link, the target is rewritten with a redirection link to a Google tracker. +This tracker is then able to save your click in the Google Search engine data. + +To achieve this, Google Search uses an onmousedown event on results. This event is able to rewrite the target link by using a function called « rwt ». +This add-on simply redefines this rwt function with an empty function, so nothing happens on click and user goes directly to its result. + +The original idea comes from the « Remove Google Redirect in Google Search Results » add-on. + +This add-on is packaged as WebExtension and so is compatible with recent Firefox releases and technologies. + +## Report issue, improvements + +Source code can be found on Github: https://github.com/Trim/avoid-google-search-redirects + +You can use this repository to open issues and feature requests.