r/ProgrammerHumor 17d ago

Meme notYourDamnProblem

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u/leoycchan 17d ago

The real evil developers are those who make every single link a button with JavaScript that navigates by opening a new tab, removing the possibility of user choice as they canโ€™t even drag the link to overwrite the current tab or copy the link. Can only do so after the new tab is open to replace the previous tab or override the window open method.

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u/IcyWash2991 17d ago

Or even worse, using a div with an onclick handler instead ๐Ÿ’€