“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
For what it's worth, here's Google admitting that GoogleBot causes POSTs:https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/11/get-post-a...Automatically triggered POST is not sufficient to keep the bots at bay.They seem to be implying that only automatically triggered POST are acceptable, but that was also >10 years ago.With the way things are going, it might be that any on-page confirmation buttons won't be sufficient to keep the bots at bay. Maybe it's time to fight back, check the user-agent, and serve the bots a CAPTCHA?