My feeling is that the issue isn't so much the practice of using "here" or "there" or whatever, but the practice of using hyperlinks without enough written text to allow the reader to make an informed decision about whether to click, and/or to reconstruct the reference should the link rot.
For example, if I say, "Terry Tao wrote an interesting expository article on Jean Bourgain's toolkit, which you can find here", then that should be enough information to let you decide whether to click, and the arXiv link is highly unlikely to rot. On the other hand, if I mention "lecture notes on linear algebra" and link to someone's personal webpage whose URL contains no identifying information and is at high risk of rotting, then that's poor practice even though I haven't used "here" or "there".
As others have mentioned in the comments, it doesn't seem appropriate to aggressively police this sort of thing, but we could consider updating the advice in the help center. The advice on how to write a good answer already says something about providing context for links, but could perhaps be revised to be more explicit about providing links that are unlikely to rot, or that can be reconstructed even if they do rot. The advice on how to ask a good question currently says nothing about links; I'm not sure it needs to.

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