You can set up a span with a style that has a link-like look (color, underline), use "cursor:pointer" in the style to make the pointer turn to a hand over it. Use a mouseover/out event catcher to trigger a tooltip that mimics the mouseover behavior on links, then capture the click event on the span to send the user to another page.
You can use JavaScript to swap out all the links for spans like these.
If you're on a site that's using intentionally deceptive JavaScript or getting malicious JavaScript injected, whether or not links go where you think they will is the least of your problems.
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You can set up a span with a style that has a link-like look (color, underline), use "cursor:pointer" in the style to make the pointer turn to a hand over it. Use a mouseover/out event catcher to trigger a tooltip that mimics the mouseover behavior on links, then capture the click event on the span to send the user to another page.
You can use JavaScript to swap out all the links for spans like these.
If you're on a site that's using intentionally deceptive JavaScript or getting malicious JavaScript injected, whether or not links go where you think they will is the least of your problems.