bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1761

In theory you should be able to do this with
if ( ev.button === 0 ) {
ev.preventDefault();
// hijack link
}

This doesn't seem to work with a Mac trackpad though :-/

I think this is a problem related with lazyload (stable and beta works fine). I don't know the roadmap, but Kaldari posted in this comment:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142317/

That lazyload does not move to beta or stable? What we do with this bug?

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155455 renders this to be no longer relevant.