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by 8organicbits 1071 days ago
I suspect this is why many modern websites use the blue links with underline. People instantly see them as links.

Examples:

Azure Blog: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-learn-blog/...

If you look at the CSS, they actually went out of their way to add that underline back in, it's intentional.

A more common pattern seems to be blue text that gets underlined on hover.

  * AWS Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/index.html
  * GCP Docs: https://cloud.google.com/docs/
Web applications likely prefer buttons as links, which probably makes sense. They aren't "web pages" they are "applications". Text web pages stick to traditional HTML metaphors.