Copying text from YouTube to Clipboard introduces dashes?
Here's an example of a link I found on YouTube in the comments section of
a video.
gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
This is the way it shows up in the comment.
If I highlight this link and copy to clipboard (ctrl+c), then go to a new
browser tab and paste it (ctrl+v) in the address bar, then this is how it
shows up.
gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
It looks the same, right? But if I hit Enter I get an error.
404 - Page Not Found
The page you were looking for could not be found on the GNU web server.
If you followed a link that turned out to be broken, and the page with the
broken link mentions an explicit address to which to report bugs, please
use that address.
The URL also changes to the following.
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.h%C2%ADtml%EF%BB%BF
If I remove %C2%ADtml%EF%BB%BF and type in tml so that I get back the
address http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html and then hit Enter,
well now it works, and the page loads.
I thought to myself that this is very strange so I tried pasting the same
text from clipboard to a plain text editor (notepad) and this is what I
got.
gnu.org/distros/free-distros.h-tml
How was the dash between h and tml introduced? This is why I was getting
the 404 error. But the URL appears correctly when pasted to the address
bar. Is this some kind of hidden character perhaps?
Also, if I go back to YouTube and highlight the link, I can see that there
is a bump on the last three letters. The highlighting is taller around
"tml". You can see that in the screen capture below.
Why is this happening? What's going on? Could it be that Google is somehow
intentionally salting the link?
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