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