Google link cleaner

google-link-cleaner.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Google link cleaner
// @description    Make Google SERPs links go straight to their target, not via Google
// @include        https://www.google.com/*
// @namespace      http://thunderguy.com/
// @author         Bennett McElwee, bennett@thunderguy.com
// ==/UserScript==

/*
	When you click a link in a Google SERPs page, JavaScript redirects you to Google (to
	track the click) before redirecting you to the actual page. This script disables that
	behaviour so that you cna get where you're going just that little bit faster.
*/

// Chrome-compatible script injection: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8890387/61754
var main = function () {

	// Wait for current scripts to execute before disabling the mousedown handlers on the links.
	// It doesn't work if you try to do it immediately.
	window.setTimeout(function() {
			var links = document.querySelectorAll(".r a");
			for (var i = 0; i < links.length; ++i) {
				links[i].onmousedown = null;
				// console.log(links[i].onmousedown);
			}
		},
		0);
};

// Inject the main script
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.textContent = "(" + main.toString() + ")();";
document.body.appendChild(script);

this works well, based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/43037561/883015

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Google link cleaner
// @description    Make Google SERPs links go straight to their target, not via Google
// @include        *://www.google.*/*
// ==/UserScript==

window.addEventListener('mousedown', event => {
    const a = event.target.closest('a');
    if (a) {
        a.onmousedown = null;
    }
}, true);