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WizardOfLight
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Comment · 5 years 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 notice.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#M...