But he didn't make a blanket statement of "target _blank is bad". He agrees with you. > I believe the former is justifiable, the latter isn’t As he said in th

But he didn't make a blanket statement of "target _blank is bad". He agrees with you. > I believe the former is justifiable, the latter isn’t As he said in the article, it's justifiable if the user is in the middle of an important session that they probably don't want to navigate away from. For most people, reading a news article doesn't constitute that.