I noticed that at least one other person suggested opening the link in a new tab...

bjazmoore on March 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking the <a> tag in 100 characters

I noticed that at least one other person suggested opening the link in a new tab. This seems to defeat this hack in Chrome and IE 9. It probably defeates it in all browsers, since the new tab is in a different context than where the javascript is being executed and therefore can not be redirected by the javascript.

bilawal on March 20, 2013 [–]

Correct. No browsers execute onclick when you open under new tab.