@HunterZ@mastodon.sdf.org @osm_tech@en.osm.town lots of mobile/desktop apps, browser extensions, and even IoT devices are paid by "residential proxy" companies to prey on their users by selling said users's connections to AI scrapers https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/compromised/lets-talk-about-the-danger-of-residential-proxy-networks/