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Re:Ask HN: Why HN doesn't use target blank for urls to open? by linopolus on Saturday August 19, 2017 @03:03PM (#15055012)
Because it's My computer, My browser, My tabs and it should be under My control.

By the way, to enforce sane behaviour on decidedly not sane websites: Death to _blank addon for Chrome[0]. There was one for firefox too, but can't find any working with current versions..

0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/death-to-blank/gne...

Re:Ask HN: Why HN doesn't use target blank for urls to open? by abhij89 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @01:50AM (#15057136)
Got it.