Instead of a pop-up box giving users the choice each and every time, it would make much more sense to have a user setting to turn off direct external links entirely. Actually, if I was designing this platform, I would want to keep users on the site and therefore more engaged with the content. For example, if the post contains a video, why take the user away from the site when they can watch and listen to the embedded video in place while checking out the post's votes, replies, $ amount earned, etc? Ok, I understand Reddit funnels people away from their site. If such functionality has to be made available on Steemit.com, I would highly recommend having it turned off by default and give users a setting to enable it.
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