Post #1570881
2026-01-28 21:34 UTC
@ryanprior @HunterZ @osm_tech I have that scraping also on my private webserver and it forced me to make a whole bunch of content private. yet still the botnet scrapes onto it and gets 404s now. Every single request from a different IP...
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@ryanprior@mastodon.social 2026-01-28 21:38
@olbohlen @HunterZ @osm_tech sad to hear that! It's wild though, you can sign up for a scraper proxy service in minutes. They're legal, inexpensive, and easy to use. Admins who assume scrapers are using their own machines that inauthentic traffic will come from a few IP addresses are sadly living in the past.