Why links should always open in a new tab (and how to do it)

For PC (and laptop!) users, RSI is a real risk. For cellphone and tablet users, there is a "texting thumb" to worry about. This means it is our duty, as web developers, to reduce the number of clicks or thumb movements required to navigate a website.

If you do not make your links open in a new tab, it is doubling, at least, the amount of action required by the user and should not be considered by any serious programmer. There is, luckily, a simple method from which to get a link to open in a new tab with a single click.

I am releasing this method, in full, at this link https://pastebin.com/68YzV3Bk

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It is unfathomably common for articles, or any online content, to link to other content of interest. You claim you cannot enjoy content linked online unless you remember the context of the link itself, yet you fail to account for the fact that any site can, and, most likely, will, link any other site for any, or no, reason at all. Such links to content is what you find yourself opening in new tabs 80% of the time while surfing online. So we see middle click is clearly best to open in a background tab ~80% of the time. For the rest you can recommend the method in OP to the webmasters of your favorite sites. Such as this site, I should think btw.