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How about people stop changing what links do, and let the user decide by via right click or ctrl+click/cmd+click?

• username223 11y ago
  Yep. "target=_blank" is one of those things that, like pop-ups and BLINK, seemed like a good idea at the time, but proved too easy to abuse. If I want to make your site more "sticky," I'll open links in new tabs by myself. This should probably be blocked by default in most browsers.
  • gizmo686 11y ago
    I don't think <blink> every seemed like a good idea[0]. It was an undocumented easter egg that was created so that Lynx could have some of the advanced text formatting that was coming with the new graphical browsers. [0] http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
    • username223 11y ago
      Thanks for the link -- great story! If only more web nuisances could be killed off so easily.
  • defatigable 11y ago
    Quick plug for a Chrome extension I wrote that gets rid of the _blank target on links, if that behavior annoys you as much as it does me: https://goo.gl/4D1ONu https://goo.gl/4D1ONu
  • Paulods 11y ago
    I don't think that's much of an option. For instance i live in Japan and here most users expect that things will open in a new tab. Take a look at the amazon search results page as an example http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=playstation http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%A...
• provemewrong 11y ago
  > ctrl+click/cmd+click Or my personal favorite, the middle click.