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by flatline 1927 days ago
"An error in judgment". That's kind of like, I'm sorry we got caught. The fact they thought something this was a good idea at all is telling.
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BrendanEich 1927 days ago
No, it was a bug, the refcode was supposed to go only on keywords (as all browsers do).

And contrary to upthread, we never "replaced links in web pages".

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