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  • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    22 hours ago

    It’s getting encoded. % is a special character in URIs. Let me try posting it inside of back ticks, as well as triple back ticks:

    https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

    https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
    

    I’ve noticed that there’s a plague of threadiverse clients which improperly escape/encode URIs. It’s most evident with how they mangle parenthesis in Wikipedia article titles.