Large increase in traffic from Google IPs. Anyone know if it is google or scraper?

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I have seen a significant increase in traffic from IPs like 2001:4860:7:30e::ff, 2001:4860:7:30e::fe, 2001:4860:7:30e::f8, along with several others from AS15169. Does not seem to be google cloud platform - not listed in the google cloud ip ranges json file.

They are all registered to google, but the user agent is always similar to “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36”. So, not googlebot or any other bot identified as google.

Anyone know if this is legitimate traffic from google or is this scraping using google IPs?

Thanks!

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Please see: Googlebot and Other Google Crawler Verification | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers

According to the info on that page (rDNS and published bot IPs), those IPs don’t appear to be Googlebot IPs.

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Those IPs look like the Google Chrome Prefetch Proxy - Are google proxy requests really just a hidden bot network? - #11 by freitasm

As they appear to be a way around geo blocking we block them

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