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Reputation:

Spammers are heavily abusing the proxy.php function. I have 40K malicious links like this in my Google Search Console:
proxy.php?link=spamlinkhere
proxy.php?aff-xxxx&link=spamlinkhere
None of these links exist on my website, so these are malicious backlinks to proxy.php to use my site to promote spam sites and affiliate links.
This affects crawl budget and may affect site authority and ranking. proxy.php can also drain server resources.

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