Re: How does this work?
It's because the site they're opening in the hidden window isn't the one controlled by the bad actor - it's a third party authentication service.
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Ironically, that site for me was the Register a few years ago. Some of the adverts would hang my browser for a few minutes every time I opened a page with them on (it wasn't a single advert - it was quite a lot of them). Every few months I'd disable the ad blocker to see if the issue had been fixed (I don't want to watch ads - but I do get that the content has to be paid for somehow) - but it hadn't and eventually I gave up. It made a lot of other sites more pleasant to use too, though I still occasionally come across one that breaks due to relying on code the ad blocker blocks - unless I really need to access them for work I just close them and move on.
If you'd seen the sort of user interfaces most medical software has you'd understand why the RSI... Efficient and intuitive they aren't... Even relatively light use of most of them involves a lot of repetitive actions.
Of course there are other side effects to these dreadful UIs. They are slow to use, which means more time spent data processing (compared to paper forms) and therefore either fewer patients seen or less time spent with each patient (or a bit of both). In some cases they increase errors, usually because it's not obvious that after entering something you then have remember to go into a different bit of the system and approve what you've just done, or because a crucial bit of information about past decisions is hidden.