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What is the point of that? The vast majority of people don't care about URLs, which is why they don't check it when browsing and why we have links and buttons in the first place. That also doesn't solve anything regarding URL redirects.

It seems you're attempting to solve a spam/security issue through a presentation layer, which really works, especially when it's opt-in to a new HTML standard.

All major client clients already do some form of link scanning, including robots to visit the links themselves. This also feeds into their spam scores and can retroactively block certain links when wrapping it in their own redirects.



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