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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I could, good point. I do disable plugins for clients so they can't beat up their own website too much.

Still, there are legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it's an external website. I don't think I should automate that, since there's a granularity in there.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it's an external website

This is not a legitimate use—this breaks the default user agent behavior & completely removes the autonomy of opening in the current window (there are tons of ways to open in a new tab/window). Consider rechecking the article linked higher up the thread tree.