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by quickthrower2 1330 days ago
No way to stop that, bar a annoying captcha detector maybe.

Because you can control the whole http request using say curl and use proxies.

Conversely I wouldn’t be surprised if some privacy extensions hide the referrer.

You could do some basic bot detection though. Even a css hidden non-hidden field might catch the bots.