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How to differentiate between snakes easily: https://reptilestime.com/venomous-vs-non-venomous-snakes/
That said, snakes tend to avoid being visible, as they could become someone's lunch, so YMMV.
You can also tell if a bite is venomous by the marks (usually venomous snakes have fangs, non-venomous have teeth).
This entire article is an irresponsibility stupid thing to put on the internet. It lacks the asterisk of "in North America" at the top because all it contains a is a list of halfassed ways to determine if you're looking at a viper or not, and for the most part rattlesnakes (which are pretty damn distinctive to begin with). True, many venomous snakes in North America are indeed vipers including copperheads, our several aforementioned varieties of rattlesnakes, and cottonmouths.
But the most deadly of the snakes found in and around North America and indeed the rest of the world are not vipers; they're elapids or colubrids, which display few or none of these alleged telltales.
For instance, here is a coral snake which is an elapid and one of the few snakes you'll encounter in the continental US that can absolutely kill you stone dead with its neurotoxic venom.
Take note of the:
...And it also has at least two very similar lookalikes which are not dangerous to humans, namely the milk snake and the kingsnake. So, are you absolutely sure which one you're looking at before you touch it? A better idea is, don't touch it.
And outside of North America this is even worse advice because the rest of the world is absolutely rotten with deadly non-viperid snakes.
Apart from the coloration this could just as well be a simple corn snake, which are absolutely harmless. Despite having owned (mildly venomous) snakes myself for years I still wouldn't touch any wild specimen without adequate protection.
Red touches black, friend of Jack.
Red touches yellow, kill a fellow.