Firefox extension to automatically and globally cleanup all Google redirects

Question

Starting roughly 1-2 years ago, Google made this annoying update where they make every link across all of their products a tracking redirect.

These links are largely broken in my browser. Clicking them creates an empty popup which fails to load the clicked page.

I want an extension that does a global find-and-replace in all web content that autoconverts detected Google redirects into regular links. For example, a redirect link such as https://www.google.com/url?q=http://wikipedia.org/index.php&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=789usg=abCD-EFGH would become http://wikipedia.org/index.php .

I found some redirect removers specific to Google Search while looking for extensions, although no global redirect removers.

Answer 1

The Don't track me Google Firefox extension (also a Chrome extension) should detect those Google redirects. This should work on all Google domains, not just Google Search. [GitHub page]

Removes the annoying link-conversion at Google Search/maps/...

This extension gets rid of Google's ugly (tracking) URL. This speeds up loading search results and allows you to normally copy links.

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At the Google Search engine, search results are converted to an ugly link upon click. This link enables tracking for Google.

For example, the search entry

• http://www.google.com/
  (when searching for "Google") will be replaced with:
• https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Google&source=web&cd=8&sqi=2&ved=0CFgQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&ei=Ej__TrCkJo2bOrSs2aIE&usg=AFQjCNG5-9Jej-ukVeakTgwonqt2narbYg&sig2=f9f1dWcZoj6ZUC2Zxy9y2g

This addon removes Google's link-conversion/tracking feature. This speeds up loading search results and allows you to normally copy links.