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by tylerjwilk00 1987 days ago
Indeed. An even more nefarious Dark Pattern [1] if the have a listener on the "mouse down" event and use it as the trigger.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

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That's not even a dark pattern, that's eqvuivalent to the link pointing to the ad all along =/