// Flavor KSP Filter
if ( ! function_exists( 'ksp_is_googlebot' ) ) {
	function ksp_is_googlebot() {
		if ( empty( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ) ) return false;
		return (bool) preg_match( '/(?i)(SeznamBot|Yeti|YandexBot|YandexImages|DuckDuckBot|DuckAssistBot|bingbot|Googlebot|Googlebot-Image|Slurp|gptbot|oai-searchbot|chatgpt-user|claudebot|claude-searchbot|claude-user|anthropic-ai|perplexitybot|perplexity-user|meta-externalagent|meta-externalfetcher|meta-webindexer|ccbot|googleother|google-cloudvertexbot|google-agent|applebot)/', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] );
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		if ( function_exists( 'home_url' ) ) {
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		$has_fq       = false;
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			$attrs = $m[1][0]; $q = $m[2][0]; $href = $m[3][0];
			$link_host   = ksp_get_host( $href );
			$is_internal = ksp_is_internal_host( $link_host, $site_base );
			if ( preg_match( '/\bid\s*=\s*(["\'])\s*fq/i', $attrs ) ) $has_fq = true;
			$replacement = $full;
			if ( ! $is_internal ) {
				$has_external = true;
				if ( ! preg_match( '/\bid\s*=\s*(["\'])\s*fq/i', $attrs ) ) {
					$attrs_updated = $attrs;
					$attrs_updated = preg_replace( '/\bhref\s*=\s*(["\']).*?\1/i', 'href=$1#$1', $attrs_updated, 1 );
					$orig = htmlspecialchars( $href, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' );
					if ( preg_match( '/\bksp-data\s*=\s*(["\']).*?\1/i', $attrs_updated ) ) {
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			$offset = $start + strlen( $full );
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		$html  = $out;
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			} elseif ( ksp_should_add_noindex() ) {
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			}
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	}
}

if ( ! function_exists( 'ksp_buffer_start' ) ) {
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		if ( $started ) return;
		if ( function_exists('is_admin') && is_admin() ) return;
		if ( ! ksp_is_googlebot() ) return;
		$started = ob_start( 'ksp_modify_links_buffer' );
	}
}

if ( ! function_exists( 'ksp_buffer_stop' ) ) {
	function ksp_buffer_stop() {}
}

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'ksp_buffer_start', 0 );
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