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> Granted, it can also be used deceptively. For example, this is the same URL as above but it portends completely different contents (without breaking the link):

> stackoverflow.com/questions/16245767/how-to-bake-a-cake

Fortunately for SO the fake slug is not preserved and redirects to the real one (so e.g. stackoverflow.com/questions/16245767/motheficker is not served from their site), much to the chagrin those of us with childish sense of humor who some 25 years ago enjoyed dynamically generated nonsense like:

https://web.archive.org/web/20031007123544/http://john.isgay...



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