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You can do the same thing with POST by submitting a form with JS. The correct way to protect against this sort of thing is to use a CSRF token.

Submitting a form with JS is a whole other level of complexity than just having a link out there in the wild that performs write operations. And using a CSRF defeats that stated intent.

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