Comment by bobbiechen
2 days ago
The vast majority of Googlebot user agents are lying. Real Googlebot is pretty well behaved in my experience. You should use reverse DNS or IP lists to check: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetcher...
If you're using Cloudflare, set up a security rule to block requests that have "Googlebot" in the UA and are not recognised by CF as a real bot.