If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks.
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@Mimesatwork @osm_tech The same people this message reached for a start.
Journalists no longer have the reach you think they do. They have become extremely unreliable.
Write the post, spread it the same way they spread their request for a journo...
They got at least you and I and the person who shared it with me initially so... they have some reach, especially into the people who care about this kind of thing.
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@osm_tech Pinging @GarretSidzaka as he might have some leads.
@mrgrumpymonkey @osm_tech
Brian Krebs is on it -
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@osm_tech hey, @arstechnica it is not only @wikipedia that suffers
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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@osm_tech Good luck finding a journalist in 2026.
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@osm_tech You are definitely not alone: https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/ The situation is not sustainable but I'm not sure what we do about it beyond waiting for the AI bubble to burst.
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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@osm_tech Heise has written about it in German/English.
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I feel for yall. These residential proxies and the sdk networks are the bane of my existence and I’m paid to deal with them.
@ThatPrilla @osm_tech It would be very useful with a tool running on ISP hardware that could detect residential proxies. Or is there anything we can stuff into our DNS'es to blackhole the proxies backbone?
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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@osm_tech Ping @404mediaco -
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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@osm_tech might be a thing @davidgerard could do on pivot
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@osm_tech might be a thing @davidgerard could do on pivot
@froztbyte @osm_tech yeah i'm getting the same AI assholes
as is @RationalWiki (i'm the sysadmin trying to keep the site up in the face of the hammering - we can either lose Google search listing, or we can be literally unusable for humans)
as is @corbet at Linux Weekly News - OSM might be relevant to LWN, a free content project getting hammered by the AI bots
they botnet suburban Android boxes
covered it a bit previously on Pivot:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/07/the-ai-scraper-bots-are-hammering-pivot-to-ai-again-please-test/ -
@osm_tech Tell me more. You can reach me at sjvn01 <at> gmail.com
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