Is there a way to bypass statistics being written

Summary:

We've created a custom LinkList widgets that creates links for a number of usefull links, stored in the content and maintained by our editors.

We extended the contenttype of URL_ANSWER with 2 booleans, so we can determine if the link has to be opened in the same tab of the browser or use a new tab. The second boolean tells us if the link is used as a concept and has to be ignored for the linklist.

With testing this solution we saw that reading the articles, to determine what was set in the booleans results in statistics, that interfere with the normal user statistics (we got thousands of extra clickthru's on the articles we were using in the linklist).