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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1950300" data-attributes="member: 396914">I would post the full URL address, but every time I try to do that, this website turns it back to a link. So I'll have to tell you the hard way. If you hover the cursor over this copy of the link:<a href="https://syndicatedsearch.goog/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=DChcSEwiQ3N_0w8CMAxXypYMHHeJrKqAYABADGgJlZg&amp;co=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkNzf9MPAjAMV8qWDBx3iayqgEAAYAyAAEgIRlvD_BwE&amp;sig=AOD64_0pyk_-GBR2xYzvrqItw3RlUR8xYw&amp;adurl=https://macpaw.com/how-to/create-bootable-usb-installer-catalina%3Fcampaign%3Dcmmx_search_dsa_uk_en%26ci%3D20457828371%26adgroupid%3D152627380699%26adpos%3D%26ck%3D%26targetid%3Ddsa-2065058396079%26match%3D%26gnetwork%3Ds%26creative%3D669906287467%26placement%3D%26placecat%3D%26accname%3Dcmm%26gad_source%3D5&amp;q=&amp;nb=0&amp;rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.startpage.com%2F&amp;nm=56&amp;is=598x798&amp;clkt=162&amp;nx=66&amp;ny=11" target="_blank">A step-by-step guide to creating a bootable macOS Catalina installer</a>On the bottom of the Safari window it will/should show the full URL for that link. It starts with &quot;Open&quot; and then the https address. On my system about 2/3's over to the right it says &quot;<a href="http://www.startpage.com" target="_blank">www.startpage.com</a>&quot; and before that is &quot;url=https&quot; followed by the hex numbers for colon and double backslash, so the full address there is &quot;https:// <a href="http://www.startpage.com" target="_blank">www.startpage.com</a>&quot; (I added a space to try to stop that from being turned into a link completely). Just before that URL is a reference to the gad_source being that URL. So, from that parsing, I deduced that the OP was entering his search from within StartPage, and that it was then linking to google for the search, bypassing the search default in Safari. Had the OP searched from the URL bar in Safari directly, I think DDG would have worked, but the search appears to have been initiated from within Startpage itself. His post #22 seems to confirm that he was using links on Startpage to search.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1950300, member: 396914"] I would post the full URL address, but every time I try to do that, this website turns it back to a link. So I'll have to tell you the hard way. If you hover the cursor over this copy of the link: [URL='https://syndicatedsearch.goog/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiQ3N_0w8CMAxXypYMHHeJrKqAYABADGgJlZg&co=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkNzf9MPAjAMV8qWDBx3iayqgEAAYAyAAEgIRlvD_BwE&sig=AOD64_0pyk_-GBR2xYzvrqItw3RlUR8xYw&adurl=https://macpaw.com/how-to/create-bootable-usb-installer-catalina%3Fcampaign%3Dcmmx_search_dsa_uk_en%26ci%3D20457828371%26adgroupid%3D152627380699%26adpos%3D%26ck%3D%26targetid%3Ddsa-2065058396079%26match%3D%26gnetwork%3Ds%26creative%3D669906287467%26placement%3D%26placecat%3D%26accname%3Dcmm%26gad_source%3D5&q=&nb=0&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.startpage.com%2F&nm=56&is=598x798&clkt=162&nx=66&ny=11']A step-by-step guide to creating a bootable macOS Catalina installer[/URL] On the bottom of the Safari window it will/should show the full URL for that link. It starts with "Open" and then the https address. On my system about 2/3's over to the right it says "[URL='http://www.startpage.com']www.startpage.com[/URL]" and before that is "url=https" followed by the hex numbers for colon and double backslash, so the full address there is "https:// [URL="http://www.startpage.com"]www.startpage.com[/URL]" (I added a space to try to stop that from being turned into a link completely). Just before that URL is a reference to the gad_source being that URL. So, from that parsing, I deduced that the OP was entering his search from within StartPage, and that it was then linking to google for the search, bypassing the search default in Safari. Had the OP searched from the URL bar in Safari directly, I think DDG would have worked, but the search appears to have been initiated from within Startpage itself. His post #22 seems to confirm that he was using links on Startpage to search. [/QUOTE]

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