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Google Search Console is showing inbound links while they were supposed to be "nofollow" inbount links.

It's my understanding that in Google Seach Console, under the "Links" section for a specific verified domain property, I will find (all?) the inbound links to said domain that Google has indexed.

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Which in general it's true: I found in that list the expected number of inbound links, in my company's GSC, and in my clients' GSCs. (We're a web agency)

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Note now that it's the agency policy to put a NOFOLLOW link to our main website, for branding reasons.

Also, we recently (8-12 weeks ago) released for couple of clients of ours, two different ecommerce websites, with thousands of pages each.

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We're now seeing that under our own GSC "Links" section that we have several thousands of inbound links from said websites, even though they are NOFOLLOW.

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The "offending" websites are correctly setup, and in their GSCs there's also a sitemap, with the expected number of links being crawled/indexed by Google almost everyday.

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So, is my assumption wrong? What else should I be checking?

Edit: typos

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