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2 months agoThey actually do. To avoid infinite loops. If a URL redirects to the identical URL for more than ~5 times most browsers will refuse to load and show an error instead.
That’s why sites like this will generate new URLs with the same content.
It actually takes a few trillion years but its fine because we just stop considering the “failed” universes because they will be gone soon™ anyway.