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by Groxx 5498 days ago
Uh, it doesn't mean that at all. Here's a random link, note how it doesn't redirect to the homepage: http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/9xKcFNixgDWMPXx0DGu0_77...

That's just the default behavior. There's an enormous amount of other rewrites to handle actual functionality.

Bookmark interfering - probably. But which is worse for most users: a 302 / 404 error, or being pushed somewhere useful to start from?

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302 won't break bookmarks.

Most users get taken to where they meant to go, without noticing the domain rewrite.