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Google Search URL Fixup Fork v0.8.8

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Sets the links in the JavaScript-free Google Basic Variant (gbv=1) search results to their original domains, which circumvents click routing through Google's query parameters, fixes browser history mismatch, and strips tracking query parameters.

Since Google wants to track outbound domain traffic, and the Basic Variant mode lacks the JavaScript necessary to do more dynamic tracking, Google instead literally URL encodes your destination domain, and sets it as a query parameter on their own domain, which then redirects you to your destination. This Web-Extension aims to solve this, and at the same time strips tracking query parameters on search results on both GBV (gbv=1), and default (gbv=2) Google modes.

Fork/rewrite of https://github.com/siebenmann/gsearch-urlfix with the following additions:

1. Reroutes Google's /imgres links for inline images.
2. Strips off query parameter tracking for Google domains.
3. Listens to body changes to work with inline pagination (e.g. the Super-preloader UserScript, and the AutoPagerize Web-Extension).