Comment by rayiner

13 years ago

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mc2zk/cs451/mco_P4.ppt

Does that work?

I copied and pasted it from a Google search result (because otherwise the file downloads without showing me the URL). Google of course has decided "copy link to" shouldn't work.

6 comments

rayiner

nitrogen 13 years ago

Google of course has decided "copy link to" shouldn't work.

There's an addon for that.

mpyne 13 years ago
It shouldn't need an addon though. I'm often on Google's side on debates but this is just ridiculous.
- stephengillie 13 years ago
  
  We should make our own browser where we can make those decisions!
rayiner 13 years ago
Addon to what?
- nitrogen 13 years ago
  
  An addon to Firefox (mobile, too) and Chrome that prevents Google from changing the link address to a tracking address, allowing you to right click a search result, then choose Copy link address, and get the correct result.
  I agree with mpyne, though, that it shouldn't be necessary.

cpach 13 years ago

I’ve noticed this issue a lot of times. Is Google deliberately inserting Unicode crap at the end of URL:s in order to prevent copy-and-paste from their search results? Or perhaps it’s to prevent scraping, and the loss of copy and paste functionality is just collateral damage.