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by jabiko 4843 days ago
Came here to say the same. At least they should detect a scroll wheel click and open the link in a new tab.

Or they could use the google approach and change the link in the last moment to point to a tracking service.
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cientifico 4843 days ago
One more with the same problem. Right click open in a new window, and then 3 tabs with about:blank.

That is also because using lift?

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xaritas 4843 days ago
No, Lift does NOT do this. The site appears to be running on WordPress (guessing based on the 'wp-content' in the paths for assets).

I confess to having a bit of a crush on Lift so I was happy to see something about it on the front page, but this article is a little vague, so most people will probably remember the intrusive click tracking over anything else.

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fhars 4843 days ago
No, that s probably because

  <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin v1.4.1 - http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ -->
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MBCook 4843 days ago
Interesting. Safari won't even give me the option to open it in a new tab, since it's obviously not a web link.

Just obnoxious.

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wingchen 4843 days ago
Nope. This is a wordpress blog.
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