Supermium

[EliraFriesnan]

16 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Showing screencap's of the "about" dialog is about as useful to the discussion as showing a picture of my dog!

Be polite and respectful.

I chose the the official Ungoogled Chromium 138 to match the "latest" Supermium to be Fair.
Hence the screenshot!
I of course already use 144 and 145. But Supermium is always late.

[EliraFriesnan]

16 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

At any rate, I cannot even do any Google searches now,

Tells us a lot about your location!

16 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I cannot even do any Google searches now,

I can. 

Screen 1 shows I'm from Switzerland and my IP. 

Screen 2 shows I'm from Switzerland. Hence Google is offered in: Deutsch, Français, Italiano for me.

Screen 3 shows a random word I used in this Google search now. See - no Tracking links!

Screen 4 shows "about me" Ungoogled Chromium 138 .

Is this enough proof now? Are you satisfied?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

On 2/1/2026 at 2:02 AM, j7n said:

I just noticed that when I copy a link from Google search using Supermium, I actually get the target link. But if I copy with an old browser, such as New Moon, I get the redicted link managed by Google. Why is it that Supermium has access to the true obfuscated link?

This thread is technically about Supermium (which is not being sent tracking links BY THE SERVER), your question is more about New Moon (which is being sent tracking links BY THE SERVER).

Again, this is all SERVER-SIDE.  The browser doing the rendering is rendering exactly what is being sent to that browser BY THE SERVER.

And New Moon is being SINGLED OUT.  Chrome/Chromium/Supermium/Catsxp/r3dfox - all of these are not being sent tracking links BY THE SERVER.

It's all in the USER AGENT (in this case).

 

New Moon without a useragent override (note: you have to hover over a search result link to see the tracking URL, it is not always shown in the address bar):

 

New Moon with a useragent override:

[NotHereToPlayGames]

3 hours ago, EliraFriesnan said:

Screen 1 shows I'm from Switzerland and my IP. 

I'd be more interested in a screencap from here  --  https://mate.tools/vpn-detection-test

Here is mine:

[EliraFriesnan]

Here you go.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Additionally, and predictably, if you set Supermium to use New Moon's default User Agent, then Supermium is sent the tracking link version of the search results.

Again, all server-side.  The browsers are rendering what they are sent by the server.

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Q.E.D.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

But I feel like the TIME that was spent to demonstrate this PROOF is time WASTED.
Because my name doesn't begin with a "D" so answers, despite 100% accurate and true, will never be "liked".
Yeah, that was a rib-jab.  

[EliraFriesnan]

On 2/2/2026 at 1:27 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

But I feel like the TIME that was spent to demonstrate this PROOF is time WASTED.
Because my name doesn't begin with a "D" so answers, despite 100% accurate and true, will never be "liked".
Yeah, that was a rib-jab.  

Joined you favourite upvoter Karla and gave you the much desired likes.

On 2/2/2026 at 1:21 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Again, all server-side.  The browsers are rendering what they are sent by the server.

Nevertheless, the link above is generated by the browser. It differs from the link below, on your screen.

Edited 2 hours ago by EliraFriesnan
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[j7n]

In NM the redirect link appears only after clicking on the link (or copying). Of course the HTML is different coming from the server, the anchor element contains different parameters. I am sending a Firefox/140 agent to get the full page from Google instead of a simplified version. It was a surprise to me that the page still isn't completely full doing this. I don't think is needed to jump in and "defend" either browser.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

The tracker will be different with each browsing session.  Google is tracking your searches, not your browser.

I never said that the tracker will be "identical".  It is generated BY GOOGLE each and every first visit per COOKIE.

Delete the cookie and you get a new "tracker".

 

First cookie:

 

Delete first cookie, let Google set second cookie:

[EliraFriesnan]

1 hour ago, j7n said:

In NM the redirect link appears only after clicking on the link (or copying).

Redirect link and tracking link are two different matters. The garbage you see after = is a unique tracking stamp.

Most likely contains your IP, PC specs obtained via GetOEMCP ans so on.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnls/nf-winnls-getoemcp

[EliraFriesnan]

2 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

The tracker will be different with each browsing session.

It's different on the same (your) screengrab, upper left image.

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Of course it is!  They are different sessions, different cookies.

I'm failing to understand the obsession.  I'm done here, I really do not need the obsession.