Method 3: command-click the link when you want to open the link in another tab.
Even though I have sort of learned to live with the way Core77’s front page works, I consider it to break what I would call a convention for good web design and I still cmd-click the links every now and then, forgetting that the links are ‘faulty’, resulting in an extra tab opened with an error message as the browser tries to open the javascript too (btw. it could have been implemented using plain html instead of a javascript, then this wouldn’t happen. I suspect the javascript is used to disable the option “open in new tab” if you right-click the link, bad practice in my book as it causes unexpected browser behaviour for the user).
There should at least be some kind of indications that lets the user know the link has unexpected behaviour.