It is a simple line of code and the entire site does this or add target=“_blank” to every hyperlink, and it will do the same thing. It sucks that you have to right-click every link to open in a new tab or window and it is such a simple fix.

  • Zloubida@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, but no: blind and visually impaired people have troubles navigating the web because of these links that are opened in a new tab/window.

    It could be an option to activate, though.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah, this is the real reason you’re not supposed to open external links in a new tab. It’s an accessibility issue.

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    2 years ago

    I wrote a userscript for old.lemmy.world to make the header floaty and to force links into a new tab.

    It’s not completely perfect, but it’s increased my QOL and I’d hate to go back.

    It won’t work on the default site, of course.

    Let me know if you want it, it’s short enough to just paste in a reply.