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do you use target=" blank" on affiliate links?

         

londrum

4:52 pm on May 12, 2026 (gmt 0)

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I recently came across an issue with safari where my redirect script that i use for affiliate links was sometimes opening up a new tab with an about:blank page in it, instead of redirecting to the affiliate site.
apparently safari doesn't like the chain of redirects

putting rel="noopener" on the links might have helped a little bit, but removing target="_blank" is supposed to help as well.

Im just wondering how many of us still use target="_blank" for affiliate links, and whether it is frowned upon

lucy24

3:59 pm on May 13, 2026 (gmt 0)

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Would you like this question to be specifically about handling of affiliate links, or about approaches to target="_blank" in general?