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Browsers are configured to pass off tel: links by a designated handler. In Safari on Mac, the default handler is Facetime, or at least was, for a while.

On a mobile phone most browsers just open the phone/dialer app to handle tel: links. In Chrome, back when I had Google Voice, I had it configured to do Google Voice calls (including for a time, Google Hangouts as the interface for my Google Voice account).