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"textContent": "Yes it is verified by Cloudflare themselves as the real GPT Bot.\n\nIt seems that I fixed this issue by blocking access to those nocache strings completely. GPT Bot got blocked about 4k in 24 hours and disappeared for a while. It is back now and crawling as expected.",
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