Agreed. But what&#x27;s more  intriguing to me is that the proposed &quot;solution&quot; is to add yet another hack on top of that (rel=noopener), instead of doing something to fix the broken behavior of target=_blank.<p>I doubt that many sites rely on this broken behavior. And even if they do, browsers could still block it and show some warning to the user &quot;Hey, this tab that just opened wants to change the URL of this other tab [allow, always, nope, never]&quot;, just like they do for popup windows or sites with broken SSL certs.<p>Does someone with more experience in these kind of issues know why it was decided to put the responsibility of fixing this on individual websites (rel=noopener) instead of browsers (blocking the URL changing or showing a warning)?