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   OpenStreetMap Ops Team (osm_tech@en.osm.town)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 22:59:56 JST OpenStreetMap Ops Team

   Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

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     OpenStreetMap Ops Team (osm_tech@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 10:55:40 JST OpenStreetMap Ops Team

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     • Martijn van Exel

     @mvexel This is a whole new level of abuse we're seeing. 32,000+ IPv4 /24 ranges now blocked. Requests being proxied via 2 million+ unique IP addresses. Server ranges and home users. Annoyingly anonymous.

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     Martijn van Exel (mvexel@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 10:55:42 JST Martijn van Exel

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     @osm_tech I'm going to resist the urge to say something really unpleasant but I will say this.

     It's the open internet that suffers from the VC-backed LLM / AI bubble. They could *not* care less.

     "If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality." - Drew DeVault, https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html