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Are you sure you don't have an adblocker so aggressive that it is preventing the link be opened? Or that you aren't using a hosts hack so total that it prevents the destination being reached?
What extensions are you using?
I'm using Chrome 49 with uBlock Origin 1.6.6.
When I click the CRC link above, CRC choose to send the link via DoubleClick and the domain ad.doubleclick.net , once they've done that it redirects to CRC. This is a CRC thing, they're redirecting some referrer traffic via DoubleClick to get metrics and traffic analysis.
So if your adblocker or hosts file is killing DoubleClick, then perhaps the browser detects the link goes nowhere and closes the tab.
I use uBlock Origin so that things like DoubleClick are blocked by default, but once in a while when I click a link that goes via it I have the choice as to whether to allow it just that once (which I usually do because at that time I'm following an affiliate link and realise this is how those small web sites make some of their money).
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I thought it may be an affliliate link problem but clicking through the affiliate link page all seem to work.
@Velocio in case you haven't had an update.