Google bot is now functioning on Chrome 78 from last Friday, the 1st of November & the balanced version was released on the 22nd of October & hence will completely arrive on Evergreen Googlebot nearly about 9 days later.
Bastian Grimm first noticed this on Twitter but it seems that an error occurs in this as noticed by Bastian:
No BERT, but Evergreen Googlebot has been updated to Chrome 78 in the last three days (FYI UA still at Chrome 41). pic.twitter.com/hrogudQfRV
— Bastian Grimm (@basgr) November 1, 2019
yeah, i can re-deploy; we changed it since I thought our tracking was broken. GSC returned "Other Error (XHR)" and logs returned HTTP 419 (Lavarel setup) but starting ~3 days ago. Chrome 78 (on Win/Mac): no errors – seemed GBot only. For now we disabled CSRF > works again.
— Bastian Grimm (@basgr) November 1, 2019
Martin Splitt from Google Tweeted to Bastian Grimm That “I’ll see if that’s something on our end”
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