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Re: How to stop Google from spying on me?

Thank you for the link, I pasted the script below, into the folder pointed to in Opera under tools, preferences, javascript options (the button on the lower right side not the check boxes on the left) then labeled the file nomiddleman.user.js. It worked like a charm. I was getting the redirected URL's from google, and am no longer seeing them. I had no idea this feature was even available. Thank You thank you THANK YOU, my affection for Opera now borders on love. I am a bit puzzled by the exclude list, web archive makes sense, of the others perhaps someone with a better security understanding could help out a bit.

Thanks - Now, onto stopping mouse movement tracking!

Script pasted below ---- from - »s95249689.onlinehome.us/nomiddleman.user.js if anyone sees an obvious security risk or problem with this, please DO let me know

// No Middle Man
// version 0.5
// 06.05.2005
// albertb at gmail dot com
//
// Changelog:
// 0.1 Initial version
// 0.2 Added unescape
// 0.3 Ignore javascript links (contributed by superchaes at gmail dot com)
// 0.4 Unescape before looking for http: (contributed by www.arantius.com)
// 0.5 Cleanup and integration of some contributed code
// 0.6 Handle chained redirections and those missing the http part
// 0.7 Improved Yahoo support, quick fix for GeoURL
//
//
// ==UserScript==
// @name NoMiddleMan
// @namespace »0x539.blogspot.com/
// @description Rewrites URLs to remove redirection scripts
// @include *
// @exclude »del.icio.us/*
// @exclude »*bloglines.com/*
// @exclude »web.archive.org/*
// @exclude »*wists.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
for (var i=0; i 0) {
url = link.href.substring(start);

// check whether the real url is a parameter
qindex = link.href.indexOf('?');
if (qindex > -1 && qindex -1) {
url = url.substring(0, end);
}
}
// handle Yahoo's chained redirections
var temp = url;
url = unescape(url);
while (temp != url) {
temp = url;
url = unescape(url);
}
// and we're done
link.href = url.replace(/&/g, '&');
}
}
})();
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