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Comment by wodenokoto | Hacker News Reader

> Spymarks just seem like another word for https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Stop using links instead of words. Your comment is literally unreadable without going on to other websites.

idk, loved their comment. Stop giving "Stop" orders to others.

> Stop using links instead of words.

No, the words could contain steganography. Use links to be safe!

the word is the last segment of the url. very readable

It was cropped to just displaying as https://en.wikipedia.org/wi.. on my mobile screen - so not really readable here.

Does the shorter enwp.org/Steganography render any better? It's quite handy for English Wikipedia links.

(Edit: hmm, without the "https://" it seems to depend on the browsers ability to recognise a URL.)

I think any length of link would have been fine if commenter just put

"for stenography (link)"

Or to use another HNism

"Stenography[1]"

Those interested could click it, those not could still read the comment.

and on desktop for me

Not on mobile it isn't. Unless they really are saying we should stop using English Wikipedia.

Stop using link mutiliating tools!

What will be the next? I will be unable to see the domain of a link on hover/longtap and have to trust random links like on a search engine?