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WizardOfLight
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WizardOfLight
5y ago
It’s to avoid malware domains and similar applications of various malfeasance. In short, because they can be used to obfuscate the actually intended url copied, such as fасеbook <— this has Cyrillic characters in it you can’t otherwise n
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WizardOfLight
5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#M...