This is really dangerous because you have no way of knowing what the surprise link leads to, something that can cause a lot of tension and prevent you from truly understanding the kind of levels of safety that you can take advantage of on the internet. Google Chrome is now fixing this issue by blocking JavaScript redirects when they are done after a URL link has been clicked. Even if this does not lead to security breaches, there is a good chance that it could lead to a lot of spam and it is also used to prevent users from clicking away from a page that they have been lead to in spite of the fact that they did not initially want to go there.
The way that Google did this is similar to what Apple did as well by linking the code used to redirect to a different page to a noopener attribute that would block redirects from occurring. This can help give users a lot of peace of mind while they are surfing the web since they would no longer need to worry about things like what surprise link they might suddenly need to deal with if they were to click on a random URL they come across.

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