Google actually provides means of validating whether a request really came from them, so masquerading as Googlebot would probably backfire on you. I would expec

Google actually provides means of validating whether a request really came from them, so masquerading as Googlebot would probably backfire on you. I would expect the big CDNs to flag your IP address as malicious if you fail that check. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/verifying-googlebot https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...