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It's not a CMS thing, it's a Chrome thing.[1] It highlights the text in the URI fragment when you click through to the page, and also auto-scrolls to that text.

[1] https://web.dev/text-fragments/



It appears that Google Search has started to add those text fragments onto URLs in search results. Is there a setting or a browser extension that allows me to get rid of them?


Bing does it too


TIL! I'm a Firefox user, so didn't see anything.




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