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		llimos on Aug 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails wi... You can (or used to be able to) embed an HTML form inside an email, and clicking the submit button will perform a POST if that is the method specified. This would probably solve the issue. You avoid an extra click on the resulting page, it's a POST which matches the standard, and Google (presumably) won't hit it.

louis-lau on Aug 20, 2021 | [–]

Forms are not supported in all major clients.

inetknght on Aug 20, 2021 | [–]

How will you handle people who use text-only email?

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