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Not related to the content of the article, but does anyone else get annoyed with sites that put some sort of onclick/mousedown handler on their links, presumabl
by brown9-2 17y ago
Not related to the content of the article, but does anyone else get annoyed with sites that put some sort of onclick/mousedown handler on their links, presumably to track outbound clicks or something related?
This overrides the middle-click behavior of my browser to open the link in a new tab. I'm trying to open your outbound link in a new tab so I can continue to read your content AND later read the page being linked to; the analytics being surreptiously added to every link overrides and prevents this.
- pmiller2 17y agoCan't this be done in a non-obtrusive way? Not every site that uses analytics has this type of annoying behavior, so I'm left wondering what additional value they get by overriding onclick.