target="_blank" wasn't replaced by user behavior, it was replaced by Javascript intercepting and logging and tracking every click. That said, opening links in

target="_blank" wasn't replaced by user behavior, it was replaced by Javascript intercepting and logging and tracking every click. That said, opening links in a new tab/window is the less-breaky approach these days, since every page that the clicks came from is a mess of infinite scroll and reactive components and all sorts of other state that gets lost by clicking to another page and trying to go back.