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Re:Open Startups List by tiborsaas on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:14PM (#20670564)
> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions?

Because they are tracking clicks on each button that goes to an open page. It's not really over engineering, but side effect of good old tracking.

Re:Open Startups List by anon1m0us on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:17PM (#20671161)

  function trackClick(){
     //steal users' privacy here
     return true;
  }
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $('a').click = trackClick;
  });
Re:Open Startups List by tiborsaas on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:58PM (#20671333)
The page includes hotjar, so you can draw something nice with your mouse movements :)