Is there a way to remove bad backlinks from Ahrefs database?

roblestuellend

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One of my sites was hit with a massive spam attack which resulted in over 50,000 bad/spammy backlinks showing up in Ahrefs and other tools. I haven't received any penalty from Google yet but have now disavowed all those links in GSC.

The links shouldn't be counted anymore with Google hopefully, but they still show up in Ahrefs which doesn't look good at all. Isn't there some way Ahrefs and other tools can remove those links from their database and not count them after I have already disavow them with Google?
 
Thanks, didn't know about that. But this is just to remove the links from our own generated reports. I wanted to have the links completely removed from their database for everyone to see. Mostly for if I ever wanted to sell guest posts or if I want to sell the website someday and it looks bad to potential buyers to see so many spam links pointing to the domain.

I just asked Ahrefs support if there is anyway to remove them from the database and they said no, Oh well, I guess will have to live with it.
 
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