[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-3421755 ] Google news click tracking

Actionsfile feedback item #3421755, was opened at 2011-10-11 12:54
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Category: filter: other problem
Group: current actionsfile
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: dan stahlke (dstahlke)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: Google news click tracking

Initial Comment:
On news.google.com, when you hover over the links the legitimate address is displayed on the browser's status bar.  However, when you click the link it appears that google rewrites it to direct to their servers so they can tell which stories you are reading.  I found this out by using a network sniffer.  The rule below prevents this.  The first redirect cleans up the URL by removing tailing "&..." options which would otherwise be interpreted by the fast-redirects function.

{+redirect{s@(news.google.com/news/url.*&url=http[^&]*)&.*$@$1@}}
news.google.com/news/url.*&url=http.*&.*

{+fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}}
news.google.com/news/url


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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2011-10-16 13:12

Message:
Thanks for the report.

I can't reproduce this with my browser configuration. Probably it requires
JavaScript, a Google account or something else.

Can you provide example URLs for both sections that we could use for
regression testing?

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