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When right click and copy the URL, I get "https://www.techradar.com/web-hosting/best-web-hosting-servi.... So I'm not sure what you're doing, but I can't reproduce that behavior.

> And these 2 letters are the only thing to distinguish ads from fair search.

Like I said, "This is personal preference". You can have a different preference, but you aren't correct. Much like your definition of "fairness" isn't objective. A bold prefix marking something as an ad is pretty clear. For me it was easier to distinguish ads on Google than on DDG. You may have a different subjective experience. That's okay, but we shouldn't base legislation on your subjective experience.

> Here’s more information on the syntax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Ge....

I'm going to leave it at that and disengage.



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