May 20
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Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that if you end up showing your hreflang markup just to search engine crawlers and not humans, i.e. cloaking, that it would still be considered cloaking but you probably won’t be penalized for doing so. He still highly discourages you taking this approach.
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Google: Cloaking Your Hreflang Markup Won’t Lead To A Google Penalty