Consider yourself un-unannointed.
The underline is your clue. Mouse-over and compare
example and
example*.
Back in the day clicked links were red [or purple] and unlinked links were blue but that was too much information for normies.
Quote:
https://www.w3schools.com › html › html_links_colors.asp
HTML Link Colors - W3Schools
An HTML link is displayed in a different color depending on whether it has been visited, is unvisited, or is active. HTML Link Colors By default, a link will appear like this (in all browsers): An unvisited link is underlined and blue A visited link is underlined and purple An active link is underlined and red
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Hence your difficulties.
* Green links are non-canonical.