WordPress is adding “category” word before my actual category name in url (and this is unsolicited)

This should be a comment but I have not enough reputation yet, sorry for that… As Jacob said in his comment this is the normal behaviour. However this issue has already been discussed many times. Check this Q/A as an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17798815/remove-category-tag-base-from-wordpress-url-without-a-plugin

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