v0.8 - Remove yahoo.com redirection from AltaVista links.
AltaLink cleans up all the snooping redirections that are normally part of the AltaVista search engine results.
What usually happens when you click on an AltaVista link is that you are sent (invisibly) to a server under yahoo.com (parent company of AltaVista/Overture) which then redirects you to the page you wanted. If you have a Yahoo ID then this has just told them who you are and exactly what you clicked on. Okay, not a big issue since you've probably tried your search on Yahoo before this. But such snooping is at least underhand, IMHO. In fact the image results actually conceal the yahoo.com redirects by rewriting the status line to make it appear as though you are going straight to the page - I'm not even certain if that's legal considering the information gathering potential.
AltaLink will fix that. It replaces the yahoo.com redirects with links to the actual sites. It also reformats the links leading to AltaVista's function pages (Web, Images, more info, etc) to remove similar inter-domain tattling.
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