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by mzajc 443 days ago
> The most obnoxious thing about this I think is that Chrome shows the original link.

Not defending Google here, but could it be that the tracking page is opened by onclick() while the browser shows the original href attribute?

I've seen some websites do that for various purposes and opening the link in a new tab (middle mouse click) usually bypasses it.