As mentioned here, reddit is now tracking outbound links. I only noticed it now, I don't know if the change has actually been online for 8 days, but regardless, it's annoying to me. Anyway, if you inspect outbound links (like any imgur link posted on reddit), you should notice that it has two attributes: 'data-href-url' is the attribute that shows when you mouseover or copy the URL of the link, and it will tell you what you want to hear: "http://imgur.com/[something]". 'data-outbound-url' is the link you're actually visiting when you click (or ctrl-click / middle-click) the link, which more or less instantly redirects you to imgur, after tracking your click. It looks something like "http://out.reddit.com/[something that has the actual URL you want to visit as a parameter]". Anyway, here's a short script that overwrites the 2nd attribute with the 1st, making sure you go directly to imgur. It's especially good even if you don't care about your privacy in the scenario where you're on a shitty connection that takes 5 seconds to load any page, because it loads one less page per click, basically. // ==UserScript== // @name Don't track my clicks, reddit // @namespace http://reddit.com/u/OperaSona // @author OperaSona // @match ://.reddit.com/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript==

var a_col = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); var a, actual_fucking_url; for(var i = 0; i < a_col.length; i++) { a = a_col[i]; actual_fucking_url = a.getAttribute('data-href-url'); if(actual_fucking_url) a.setAttribute('data-outbound-url', actual_fucking_url); } It's a userscript, so use whichever tool your browser has to install it (TamperMonkey on Chrome, GreaseMonkey on FF, build-in in Opera, or figure it out for whatever else you're using as a browser). Also, it's a 3 minutes job, it's probably not as beautiful or as short or even as efficient as it could be, but we'll probably have better options soon (options to disable it directly in reddit? or at least in RES?) and in the meantime, it does the job.