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blfrlast Tuesday at 4:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

Another one is hijcking ctrl+click (open in the new tab) into mere click (open here). I am shocked how many ecommerce sites do this.


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myself248last Tuesday at 4:56 PM

And many of them don't even have a real click action, that I can find. I can't even right-click and manually pick "open in new tab", because the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link.

I agree, ecommerce sites are the place that I most often want to open several items in tabs and decide between them, and the place this function is most often blocked! I wish I could scream at the jerk who implemented this, but that jerk is not among the options of screamable people.

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lemoncucumberlast Tuesday at 11:36 PM

This one drives me nuts. I get it if it’s a single page app, but in many cases right-clicking the same link and choosing “open in new tab” works fine so that’s not the issue.

eastboundlast Tuesday at 6:51 PM

That’s because of React. The React Router is bad and people don’t spend extra time configuring it against its own bugs.