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If you really, really want to avoid it I'm pretty sure you could use a link shortener (bit.ly etc) behind markdown, and it would mask it (haven't tested)

But please only do this for personal repos where you're the only contributor because otherwise this looks incredibly sus for anyone to click on

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I think I stumbled on togithub.com, which simply does a 302 redirect to github.com, which keeps the url understandable and doesn't create the backlink. But I have no idea who actually runs the servers, so I instead went back to a text file.

It's only personal repos, that's why I don't want to create the irrelevant noise for lots of other people.

Reminds me of enwp.org for Wikipedia redirects/shortening. I assume a German owns it, since dewp.org does the same thing.

Seems dangerous to use, if you come to rely on it, but sometimes handy.

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