I think you confuse user, the Human, and user, the Programming Idiom.

User, the Human, is not going to be asked weather or not the browser should open every one of the possibly hundreds of references in a web page!!

Now, user, the Programming Idiom, might be configured, programed, etc.. to behave differently, but the reality is that is that's not how the modern web works. If the browser is not configured to behave the way it comes from the box by Google, Microsoft or Apple, most pages will not work correctly.

So I think your configuration/technical argument is purely theoretical. The court cannot expect the average user to understand do any of that.