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View submission: [reddit change] Click events on Outbound Links
Everyone's talking about right-clicking and copying URLs.... But what happens if you right-click > "open in new tab". I do this very often, and this doesn't register an `onClick`, which is how I assume you're going to be tracking information (as it currently does for the "last viewed" link--right?).
I just don't want to get some kind of flag on my account for never clicking links, but voting on stuff when I am, in fact, clicking links. Not that you're going to be flagging accounts for abuse with this data, but you know... just in case.
Comment by Drunken_Economist at 09/03/2016 at 05:05 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
You're correct, good eye. This doesn't capture right-clicks (which is also how I browse).
Don't worry, we aren't doing anything dumb like ignoring comments and votes from users without click events. It's more for getting baselines to inform product decisions
Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2016 at 04:01 UTC*
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Comment by adipisicing at 09/03/2016 at 02:12 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Great point that this will affect the stats.
Ignoring the other users who will do this, may I suggest middle-clicking, or Ctrl-clicking (Linux& Windows) or Command-clicking (MacOS)? It will save you a bunch of time.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2016 at 13:41 UTC
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What about middle clicking? It does the same as what you do but takes out the middle step of clicking "open in new tab."
Comment by mikoul at 13/03/2016 at 02:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
In fact here I've made a userscript especially for Reddit that open every link I click in a new tab.