How to remove Yahoo's redirect from yahoo search

Whenever you perform any search on yahoo search engine then for each output result yahoo provides two ways to reach on that website or address , first you click on the link (usually in blue,very first line ) provided by the search engine or you just copy the website address (usually in green) from the last line of result and paste in new tab.

Usually we don't think on this issue that the address of first and last line which ultimately points to same address are not same.Both of them are different.You can see the pic or can perform this on your system also.First link is actually the link to yahoo server in the form like http://rds.yahoo.com/....If you click on result then you will be redirected through the yahoo server.



By this way yahoo keeps the record of each and every search performed on its server and which result user selected.But for user it slows the speed down a little bit and make your search history stored on yahoo server.

This can be quite frustrating especially if you use Yahoo regularly to search the Internet. A small Greasemonkey script comes to the rescue, at least to the rescue of FireFox users. The Yahoo! Redirect Remover script removes the redirects from the search results including Yahoo video search and virtually every other Yahoo.com page that is using those kind of redirects.

The script obviously requires Greasemonkey to be installed before the Yahoo! Redirect Remover script itself can be installed and used.

Yahoo Images are actually redirected twice it seems. Another Greasemonkey script takes care of the second redirect. Install the Yahoo Image Relinker script for Greasemonkey if you want to see the direct links to the images instead of the second Yahoo redirect.

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