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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by megous on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:32PM (#18216241)
onclick handler and event.preventDefault
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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by makomk on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:02PM (#18216386)
Replacing links with onclick handlers breaks "open in new tab".
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Re:Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its... by megous on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:39PM (#18216544)
You can use window.open to simulate that. If you're fb, you're probably already whitelisted in the popup blocker.

Though I agree it's not ideal.

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