The complaint should be lodged against the current browser behavior rather than linking itself. The cognitive cost to follow the link is not cheap because of h

The complaint should be lodged against the current browser behavior rather than linking itself. The cognitive cost to follow the link is not cheap because of how browsers work and the way linking is generally used today (even using tabs/additional windows). Overall I see the article as a call to improving browser technology and more thought and effort by the authors as they write and decide what to link and what not to link.