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by CodesInChaos 2401 days ago
The parent poster was referring to the "base64url" variant of Base64 which uses `-` and `_` as the two special characters and leaves out the useless padding, making it url safe. (The 33% expansion still applies though)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#page-7