diff --git a/components/Common/ActiveLocalizedLink/index.tsx b/components/Common/ActiveLocalizedLink/index.tsx
index 8e966a09323f8..ff6254e6b05dc 100644
--- a/components/Common/ActiveLocalizedLink/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/ActiveLocalizedLink/index.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 import classNames from 'classnames';
 import type { ComponentProps, FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link, usePathname } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
+import { usePathname } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 
 type ActiveLocalizedLinkProps = ComponentProps<typeof Link> & {
   activeClassName: string;
diff --git a/components/Common/Badge/index.tsx b/components/Common/Badge/index.tsx
index 6d5845cf088b6..258b32312b07d 100644
--- a/components/Common/Badge/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/Badge/index.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import ArrowRightIcon from '@heroicons/react/24/solid/ArrowRightIcon';
 import type { ComponentProps, FC, PropsWithChildren } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 import styles from './index.module.css';
 
diff --git a/components/Common/Banner/index.tsx b/components/Common/Banner/index.tsx
index 50b397ed27bfc..6c5f8fb3aacd9 100644
--- a/components/Common/Banner/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/Banner/index.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { ArrowUpRightIcon } from '@heroicons/react/24/outline';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 import styles from './index.module.css';
 
diff --git a/components/Common/Breadcrumbs/BreadcrumbLink/index.tsx b/components/Common/Breadcrumbs/BreadcrumbLink/index.tsx
index f776fee68750c..c4cd7ce9beab8 100644
--- a/components/Common/Breadcrumbs/BreadcrumbLink/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/Breadcrumbs/BreadcrumbLink/index.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import classNames from 'classnames';
 import type { ComponentProps, FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 import styles from './index.module.css';
 
diff --git a/components/Common/CrossLink/index.tsx b/components/Common/CrossLink/index.tsx
index 6eadf16f91285..137eb3e31640f 100644
--- a/components/Common/CrossLink/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/CrossLink/index.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
 import PrevNextArrow from '@/components/Common/PrevNextArrow';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 import styles from './index.module.css';
 
diff --git a/components/Common/MetaBar/index.stories.tsx b/components/Common/MetaBar/index.stories.tsx
index 25c8d964797cc..c9d5803dbf879 100644
--- a/components/Common/MetaBar/index.stories.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/MetaBar/index.stories.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import Image from 'next/image';
 
 import AvatarGroup from '@/components/Common/AvatarGroup';
 import MetaBar from '@/components/Common/MetaBar';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 type Story = StoryObj<typeof MetaBar>;
 type Meta = MetaObj<typeof MetaBar>;
diff --git a/components/Common/MetaBar/index.tsx b/components/Common/MetaBar/index.tsx
index 9a8af2ef5e224..96f1ed56c55fb 100644
--- a/components/Common/MetaBar/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/MetaBar/index.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import { Fragment, useMemo } from 'react';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 import styles from './index.module.css';
 
diff --git a/components/Common/Pagination/PaginationListItem/index.tsx b/components/Common/Pagination/PaginationListItem/index.tsx
index fc04f931c99ad..a1fd525c7a58f 100644
--- a/components/Common/Pagination/PaginationListItem/index.tsx
+++ b/components/Common/Pagination/PaginationListItem/index.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 import styles from './index.module.css';
 
diff --git a/components/Downloads/DownloadList.tsx b/components/Downloads/DownloadList.tsx
index c4287e723335f..018c169d1e111 100644
--- a/components/Downloads/DownloadList.tsx
+++ b/components/Downloads/DownloadList.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 import { useSiteNavigation } from '@/hooks/server';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 import type { NodeRelease } from '@/types';
 
 const DownloadList: FC<NodeRelease> = ({ versionWithPrefix }) => {
diff --git a/components/Downloads/PrimaryDownloadMatrix.tsx b/components/Downloads/PrimaryDownloadMatrix.tsx
index 59ee9f3c10346..8559d59dfa07f 100644
--- a/components/Downloads/PrimaryDownloadMatrix.tsx
+++ b/components/Downloads/PrimaryDownloadMatrix.tsx
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import classNames from 'classnames';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 import semVer from 'semver';
 
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 import { WithCurrentOS } from '@/components/withCurrentOS';
 import { useClientContext } from '@/hooks';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 import { DIST_URL } from '@/next.constants.mjs';
 import type { NodeRelease } from '@/types';
 
diff --git a/components/Footer.tsx b/components/Footer.tsx
index c895290a2a39a..e5572ca12eb2f 100644
--- a/components/Footer.tsx
+++ b/components/Footer.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 type FooterProps = { className?: string };
 
diff --git a/components/Header.tsx b/components/Header.tsx
index 0465d445dcc87..bdac8a701d96c 100644
--- a/components/Header.tsx
+++ b/components/Header.tsx
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import { useTheme } from 'next-themes';
 import { useState } from 'react';
 
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 import { useIsCurrentPathname, useSiteNavigation } from '@/hooks';
-import { Link, usePathname } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import { usePathname } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 import { BASE_PATH } from '@/next.constants.mjs';
 import { availableLocales } from '@/next.locales.mjs';
 
diff --git a/components/Home/HomeDownloadButton.tsx b/components/Home/HomeDownloadButton.tsx
index f17c8370ba835..dd4c7afa114e0 100644
--- a/components/Home/HomeDownloadButton.tsx
+++ b/components/Home/HomeDownloadButton.tsx
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 import { useDetectOS } from '@/hooks';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 import { DIST_URL } from '@/next.constants.mjs';
 import type { NodeRelease } from '@/types';
 import { downloadUrlByOS } from '@/util/downloadUrlByOS';
diff --git a/components/Link.tsx b/components/Link.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0b1f96dfc474c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/Link.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { useMemo } from 'react';
+import type { FC, ComponentProps, HTMLAttributes as Attributes } from 'react';
+
+import { Link as LocalizedLink } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+
+// This is a wrapper on HTML's `a` tag
+const Html: FC<Attributes<HTMLAnchorElement>> = ({ children, ...p }) => (
+  <a {...p}>{children}</a>
+);
+
+// This is Next.js's Link Component but with pre-fetch disabled
+const Next: FC<ComponentProps<typeof Link>> = ({ children, ...p }) => (
+  <LocalizedLink {...p}>{children}</LocalizedLink>
+);
+
+const Link: FC<ComponentProps<typeof LocalizedLink>> = ({
+  children,
+  ...props
+}) => {
+  const Component = useMemo(
+    // Uses a different Link element/tag based on the nature of the Link
+    // as we don't want prefetch/rsc or etc for external links
+    () =>
+      !props.href || props.href.toString().startsWith('http') ? Html : Next,
+    [props.href]
+  );
+
+  return <Component {...props}>{children}</Component>;
+};
+
+export default Link;
diff --git a/components/Pagination.tsx b/components/Pagination.tsx
index 3c8a20f11b8c9..fd99fa1926a6d 100644
--- a/components/Pagination.tsx
+++ b/components/Pagination.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 
 type PaginationProps = { prev?: number; next?: number };
 
diff --git a/components/SideNavigation.tsx b/components/SideNavigation.tsx
index b6e3a33a62008..b125ae4b58ea6 100644
--- a/components/SideNavigation.tsx
+++ b/components/SideNavigation.tsx
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import classNames from 'classnames';
 import type { RichTranslationValues } from 'next-intl';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 import { useIsCurrentPathname, useSiteNavigation } from '@/hooks';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 import type { NavigationKeys } from '@/types';
 
 type SideNavigationProps = {
diff --git a/layouts/BlogCategoryLayout.tsx b/layouts/BlogCategoryLayout.tsx
index 3af7b8ceb4a32..a08b9d49d7e2f 100644
--- a/layouts/BlogCategoryLayout.tsx
+++ b/layouts/BlogCategoryLayout.tsx
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ import { useMemo } from 'react';
 import type { FC } from 'react';
 
 import { Time } from '@/components/Common/Time';
+import Link from '@/components/Link';
 import Pagination from '@/components/Pagination';
 import { useClientContext, useBlogData } from '@/hooks/server';
-import { Link } from '@/navigation.mjs';
 import type { BlogPost } from '@/types';
 
 const BlogCategoryLayout: FC = () => {
diff --git a/next.mdx.use.mjs b/next.mdx.use.mjs
index 5b2e60118867b..85a86325e73a4 100644
--- a/next.mdx.use.mjs
+++ b/next.mdx.use.mjs
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import NodeApiVersionLinks from './components/Docs/NodeApiVersionLinks';
 import DownloadReleasesTable from './components/Downloads/DownloadReleasesTable';
 import Banner from './components/Home/Banner';
 import HomeDownloadButton from './components/Home/HomeDownloadButton';
+import Link from './components/Link';
 import { WithNodeRelease } from './components/withNodeRelease';
-import { Link } from './navigation.mjs';
 
 /**
  * A full list of React Components that we want to passthrough to MDX
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c4b4e0e39a3a6..25cccd6b53bd1 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
         "@testing-library/react": "~14.0.0",
         "@testing-library/user-event": "~14.5.1",
         "@types/jest": "29.5.7",
-        "@types/react": "^18.2.24",
-        "@types/react-dom": "^18.2.9",
+        "@types/react": "^18.2.37",
+        "@types/react-dom": "^18.2.15",
         "@types/semver": "~7.5.5",
         "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "6.9.0",
         "@typescript-eslint/parser": "6.9.0",
@@ -8482,9 +8482,9 @@
       "dev": true
     },
     "node_modules/@types/react": {
-      "version": "18.2.24",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/react/-/react-18.2.24.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-Ee0Jt4sbJxMu1iDcetZEIKQr99J1Zfb6D4F3qfUWoR1JpInkY1Wdg4WwCyBjL257D0+jGqSl1twBjV8iCaC0Aw==",
+      "version": "18.2.37",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/react/-/react-18.2.37.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-RGAYMi2bhRgEXT3f4B92WTohopH6bIXw05FuGlmJEnv/omEn190+QYEIYxIAuIBdKgboYYdVved2p1AxZVQnaw==",
       "devOptional": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@types/prop-types": "*",
@@ -8493,9 +8493,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@types/react-dom": {
-      "version": "18.2.9",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/react-dom/-/react-dom-18.2.9.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-6nNhVzZ9joQ6F7lozrASuQKC0Kf6ArYMU+DqA2ZrUbB+d+9lC6ZLn1GxiEBI1edmAwvTULtuJ6uPZpv3XudwUg==",
+      "version": "18.2.15",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/react-dom/-/react-dom-18.2.15.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-HWMdW+7r7MR5+PZqJF6YFNSCtjz1T0dsvo/f1BV6HkV+6erD/nA7wd9NM00KVG83zf2nJ7uATPO9ttdIPvi3gg==",
       "devOptional": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@types/react": "*"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 752cddbb1be45..70fc2861cc6a4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@
     "@testing-library/react": "~14.0.0",
     "@testing-library/user-event": "~14.5.1",
     "@types/jest": "29.5.7",
-    "@types/react": "^18.2.24",
-    "@types/react-dom": "^18.2.9",
+    "@types/react": "^18.2.37",
+    "@types/react-dom": "^18.2.15",
     "@types/semver": "~7.5.5",
     "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "6.9.0",
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": "6.9.0",