I'm using the Redactor plugin throughout a Craft 3 site and I'm also using a custom HTML Purifier config to clean up the HTML (surprise).
{
"HTML.ForbiddenElements": [" ", "br"],
"AutoFormat.RemoveEmpty.RemoveNbsp": true,
"AutoFormat.RemoveEmpty": true,
"AutoFormat.Linkify": true,
"AutoFormat.RemoveSpansWithoutAttributes": true
}
However it looks like it overrides Redactor's link target blank option and that override is either on (open in new tabs) or off (strip target blank).
Is there any way I can give that choice back to the user? Maybe I can stop Craft using the full url for links other than external links?