We use a custom event rule instead of the out of the box handling. 1) disable (uncheck) the OotB adobe config2) new event rule3) condition must meet (_satellite.isOutboundLink === true)(note in the condition, we create a var name %outboundLinkTarget% to collect the href value into an eVar)4) set eve...

The only place i can find t.getAttribute in visitor API is in the method: "linkNeedsDelayActivate"Do you have "delay link activation" checked for this rule?

add sequential javascript to add the pixel on the event rule that sets event40(dont make a specific rule for the pixel. if you do, then make sure you have the same conditions in the new rule -- you could really go either way)

Please see my thread here, i believe they are related_satellite.isSubdomainOf produces false positives and affects _satellite.isOutboundLink This seems to be a defect in _satellite.isSubdomainOf

The first one is probably a 302 redirect, check to see if that's the case. The second would result in a HTTP Status code of 200 if this is true. If so, this isn't firing twice or duplicating data, its just redirecting in google.