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josephcsibleyesterday at 5:15 PM1 replyview on HN

> But the extension doesn't need to use that exact mechanism

How do you figure? How else could it possibly work now?


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Dylan16807yesterday at 6:33 PM

I said that in my first comment.

You do a google search. The extension resolves every link on the page immediately via the goto urls. This doesn't leak any information to google because they obviously know which links they sent you. Now the links are resolved and you can copy and click them and get clean URLs, without sending any information about which ones you're copying or clicking.

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