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by Firefishy 146 days ago
Disclosure: I am part of the OpenStreetMap mostly-volunteer sysadmin team fighting this.

The scrapers try hard to make themselves look like valid browsers, sending requests via residential IP addresses (400,000+ IPs at last count).

I reached out to journalists because despite strong technical measures, the abuse will not go away on its own.