Google Just Closed Another Scraping Door. Here's the Cheap Way Around It.
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Hook Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=… . The destination isn't in the query string anymore — it's an opaque reference you can only resolve by asking Google (read the Location header, don't follow the redirect). As of late August 2026, it shows up consistently…
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- 2026-09-15 01:00 · DEV Community — AI
Google Just Closed Another Scraping Door. Here's the Cheap Way Around It.