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Fake links break normal link behavior. Accessibility issues, opening links in new tabs, etc.

So cool! I love being able to break accessibility and the fundamental building block of the web :)

Requiring 28 kB of javascript in order to be able to click on navigation links might not be the alternative to the sins of the JS ecosystem I expected when following this thread.

Of course, that fact alone doesn't undermine the merits of the subject matter. But I'd seriously consider it a presentation issue when doing evangelism.

>because I wanted too

Why though? I see this sometimes even on mainstream sites and I always wonder what the idea is.