The &quot;I haven&#x27;t seen any of those&quot; was just as a comment on why i couldn&#x27;t think of possible uses for this target=_blank behavior, not a justification for the proposed change (what a lame justification that would be! :)<p>That being said, i don&#x27;t see how the proposal of browsers blocking popup windows from redirecting the parent window (if it&#x27;s cross-origin) by default is any different from, for instance, them blocking popup windows from opening unless it was a user action that triggered them, which all browsers started doing by default quite some time ago. Could you elaborate on why this wouldn&#x27;t be a sensible solution?