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That’s the whole point of HTTP request methods: it isn’t. GET should never cause such side effects. The entire web is built with these principles in mind precisely so that problems like this don’t happen.

If you want a slower browsing experience feel free to disable prefetching in your browser, but this isn’t a hill worth dying on.



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