Add rel="noopener nofollow" for links to sponsor websites #2688
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Hello👋
When linking to external sites with
target='_blank', it's important to addrel='noopener'as a security measure. Otherwise the external site is able to navigate the original browser tab in the background, for example to a phishing site.More info here: https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
You've also got a bit of a spam problem at the moment - there are lots of $2 donations that seem to exist solely to build backlinks for spammy gambling websites.That seems to have been mostly taken care of in #2681. However, I've also added
rel='nofollow', which should let search engines know it's an untrusted link and hopefully protect your own search ranking. Hopefully that takes away some of the incentive to spam. I wrote about the spam a bit here: https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2018/donations-as-a-vector-for-spam