[91bananas]

Tooling is probably what dictates this more than anything. atob() is everywhere.

[knallfrosch]

Yeah, I don't get it. Assume I have a standard URL with query params, the web browser doesn't understand the decimal encoding – right?

Let's assume... this: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39907672&goto=item%3Fi...

The special encoding is just about sending data to the backend?