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by flir 602 days ago
Well... a thorough "meh" to Google. Thanks for the info though, one less thing for me to care about.
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Out of paranoia I just checked and yeah, GoogleBot actual (and not the dozens of fakes) requested each 410'd URL at least once a month, some URLs get multiple requests per month. All have been marked 410 since 2014 or earlier.
Google has FoMO...
The webmaster tools used to say Google will punish your rank if the crawler gets too many 404 or 410...