This chrome-extension removes the onClick Listeners from <a href="">-tags that will switch to another webpage.
This fixes camouflaged links, that open a different webpage, than the statusbar tells you.
This annoying technique is used by Facebook and Google to detect what links you are most interested in.
The problem with that is not the track-URL, but the fact, that the statusbar should show you the exact link-target in all cases and all circumstances.
h-online.com Article about camouflaged links
Blog entry by Bilawal Hameed