• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    If you manage the WordPress installation, can’t you disable the ability or create/install a plugin that removes that ability? This hurts usability.

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      9 months ago

      I could, good point. I do disable plugins for clients so they can’t beat up their own website too much.

      Still, there are legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it’s an external website. I don’t think I should automate that, since there’s a granularity in there.

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        9 months ago

        legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it’s an external website

        This is not a legitimate use—this breaks the default user agent behavior & completely removes the autonomy of opening in the current window (there are tons of ways to open in a new tab/window). Consider rechecking the article linked higher up the thread tree.