How to avoid popup blocker when opening a new tab on a button click

Question

I'm programmimg a web application using knockout.js. There I'm trying to open a new tab on a button click. While it actually works fine on localhost, the popup blocker complains once I deploy the application. Is there any way to avoid the popup blocker considering these circumstances?

Button in the HTML-Code

<button data-bind="click:openNewTab"
        type="button">
    Open new tab
</button>

Piece of JavaScript-Code of the ViewModel which is used from the HTML file mentioned above

self.openNewTab = function ()
{
    var newTabUrl = "https://www.stackoverflow.com";
    window.open(newTabUrl, '_blank');
};