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[โ€“] yokonzo@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will note I often see this all over the Web with the ampersand

[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

It's what happens when content is url encoded and not decoded again later. It's easy to do by accident because you can't tell if a string is already url encoded in any general way, so the processes responsible for sending and receiving need to agree on how/when to encode and decode (i.e. they both have the power to break it for the other)