This is true. It took me five goes, but I am over 40 and my mouse finger is not what it was.

Why mouse? Click the link and press escape. You youngsters with your mouses.

And there you go, it turns out that ‘mouses’ is an accepted pleural for a computer mouse.

Less horrible than ‘Magic Trackpad 2 — Silvers’ I suppose.

Yep, unlike "pleural", which is not yet an accepted spelling of "plural" :p

That’s just excellent. It stays. Guess which field I work in.

Magic Trackpads 2 — Silver

For future reference, you can rate limit bandwidth with dev tools in Chrome (and probably Firefox), which makes it a lot easier to dodge redirects in situations like this.

Just hitting Esc on the keyboard should also work to stop the redirect/load.

It never even happens if you don't have javascript enabled. Unfortunately as of last year archive.org changed their site and wayback machine design so that it is no longer possible to use without javascript.

RequestPolicy on Firefox stops redirects cold.

This also works for a lot of paywalls. Combine with Reader view in Safari and you’re in business