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Today Google decided to force Google Search users into enabling cookies for *.google.com domains. Previously you could prevent Google from tracking your search results (and still use Google's services) if you blocked cookies for google.com and allowed cookies for various Google services (accounts.google.com, plus.google.com, mail.google.com, etc.). But today Google search click tracking does not work anymore with google.com cookies blocked.

This ("Don't track me Google") seems to be a well maintained GreaseMonkey script which will remove the click tracking from Google's search results so you can keep blocking cookies from google.com and still use Google's other services. It also features referer hiding, ie. if you click a google search result link, it'll open a script-generated page which will redirect (via the meta refresh mechanism) to the target url. What this means put simply is that clicking a search result link will open a new tab/page, the target url will be visible briefly on the new tab/page and the target site will be loaded. This can be disabled by changing a variable in the script (it's documented in the script).