Title: Hyperlinks are modified
Last modified: January 1, 2023

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# Hyperlinks are modified

 *  [aitpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpeter/)
 * (@aitpeter)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlinks-are-modified/)
 * I am a moderate WordPress user but shocked by the effect of installing this plugin.
   
   After installation and activation and following the installation instructions,
   the hyperlinks are expanded with unreadable characters.They are also modified
   so that the hyperlinks are labeled as insecure by Chrome.
 * Advice: do not install and use this.
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [aitpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpeter/).

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * (@vmarko)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlinks-are-modified/#post-16335757)
 * Hello [@aitpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpeter/)
 * Thank you for the review.
   After reading your review, I’ve spent couple of hours
   trying to replicate the problem, however I was unable to do so, which only confirms
   that your statement is false. W3 Total Cache does not modify hyperlinks.
 * This being said, I would be happy if you could follow up on this and share the
   specifics about your website (since you have not opened a support topic for this.)
   so we could try and replicate the problem and provide the solution for this very
   specific issue you are referring to.
 * W3 Total Cache is the most complete optimization tool, and it would be counter
   productive if we would do anything to modify hyperlinks. However, there may be
   some specific occasion when using Disk: Enhanced and different languages, and
   UTF-8 blog charset support
   Please follow up on this and share the specifics so
   we can assist you with the configuration and this will also help us to make sure
   that in the future, the users with similar problems (This is the first one of
   this kind reported ever) can have a solution.Thanks!

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