Very interesting discussion. As someone who uses the Internet a lot, I remember all of this evolving. I used to hate it when a new window popped up, which is why the popup and popunder ads were so unpopular. When tabbed browsing came out, I, like one of the responders noted, use the right click to open in a new tab. I do this because I know it is often difficult to even remember where you were five minutes ago.
It really isn't websurfing anymore, but more like web hopping. If you don't leave a shadow of where you were, you won't get them back. If they like your content and feel it will be useful, they'll click back over to your window and subscribe/bookmark it.
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