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by egypturnash 605 days ago
On the other hand:

"Click here" screams "this is a link". It is not as obvious a call to click upon as a big shiny button, aching to be pressed, but it is more obvious than a few words that are in a harder-to-read color and underlined.

"You can go to _your_account_" is a much smoother sentence than "To change your account, click _here_". But is that always what you want? Do you want all your links to be smoothly integrated into the body text? Sometimes you do! Sometimes you don't.

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Maybe not so related, but the Spotify desktop client uses a link-styled piece of text after having downloaded an update — "click here to to update" — when you navigate to the updates menu, where I would expect a button instead of a regular link