External links in history don’t follow “Open all external links in a new tab” setting

That is sort of where my initial thoughts with the first outline were going. As if I send an optional parameter I can skip the actual link tracking logic for all uses except those coming from a topic.

Then I don’t have to worry about the parameters needed. But if Discourse wants those tracked I don’t think it will be hard to get that data either from the profile/history pages.

The main point was my current PR duplicates efforts, of which I’m not a big fan of but it shows it can be done.

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