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		Hydraulix989 on Jan 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Divi... The fact that the Markdown URL format cloaks URLs is user-hostile.

Veen on Jan 13, 2021 [–]

Markdown doesn’t cloak URLs; HTML does. We seem fine with that on every other webpage.

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