Post #1559072
2026-01-28 16:03 UTC
@dalias @BalooUriza But that is one of the points @osm_tech are making in their post. These crawlers resort to using massive amounts of "scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks" - meaning they are using Adware-infested phones all over the world for their scraping attaks. So banning IP ranges won't help much. Playing cat-and-mouse with these scrapers is resource intensive, which is increasingly hard for FOSS projects and is also driving up cost for commercial offerings.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-01-28 16:04
@magezwitscher @BalooUriza @osm_tech Not ranges. Just the single IP, and a short-lived ban. All you need to do is get them down from thousands of requests per minute to one request per hour (because they get banned for an hour each time they start again).