@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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@leah just recently discussed the same topic from the perspective of a web hosting provider in the @chaosradio podcast.