Tell HN: Google Search to begin using opaque redirect URLs on search results

By exploraz · 2026-08-26 · 3 points · 1 comments

Recently, for a couple of months, I noticed that Google Search began to replace its /url?q=<encoded url> links into a more opaque one (/goto?url=<internal identifier>) randomly (indication of A/B testing) on my logged-out private browsing sessions. The old one (in…

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